Before It Gives Way

Time is often imagined as stable, measurable, and continuous.

The works in *Before It Gives Way* approach it differently: as a condition sustained through repetition, pressure, adjustment,
and eventual release. What appears to persist does so through ongoing effort.
 

Across the exhibition, time is enacted through mechanical systems that maintain themselves while simultaneously approaching their own limits. A clock hand rises under motorised control
until gravity interrupts. A pendulum continues its swing through repeated impact. A countdown accelerates toward an expected event that never arrives.
These works do not depict failure as interruption or endpoint.

Control and loss, expectation and suspension, order and deviation appear as consecutive conditions within the same operational
loop. What is sustained eventually gives way. What gives way becomes the condition for continuation.