Time Management Techniques

Sept 24, 2022–Jan 8, 2023

A slightly warped black and white image of a busy street with people walking along the sidewalk and cars in the intersection.

Time Management Techniques showcases photography by artists who examined the medium’s relationship to time between 1968 and 2019. Drawn from the Whitney’s permanent collection, the exhibition features many recent acquisitions alongside works that have never before been exhibited. Each of the artists, despite employing vastly different techniques, aesthetics, and conceptual frameworks, works against the immediacy often associated with photography to reflect a passage of time that is slowed down, expanded, or nonlinear.

Some artists employ a personal archive, reaching back into their individual and familial histories to challenge the linear way stories are often told. Others use photography for its self-referential properties, recording the duration and labor of making photographs and allowing the process to dictate the final form. Still others consider performance and photography together, using the camera to mark a moment and suggest countless more that remain uncaptured. By making works that reflect on varieties of duration, all of these artists reveal the slipperiness of time and articulate the artificial ways we attempt to divide, mark, and come to terms with its passing.

This exhibition is organized by Elisabeth Sherman, Assistant Curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art.

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For this collaborative work with the graphic designer David Reinfurt, Shannon Ebner used photographs from her ongoing series started in 2013, Black Box Collision A, in which she took photographs of the letter A that she found in various public spaces. She and Reinfurt printed twelve of these images on posters and wheat-pasted them around Chelsea and the Meatpacking District, installing each one on the first day of the month for a year. The posters remained in place for up to a week before being removed or destroyed by the weather, people, or other forces of urban life. Timothy Schenck, the Highline’s photographer, then documented the worn posters on site and Ebner and Reinfurt made them into the new posters displayed here.

$A black and white print of textured materials and refracted light.$

Shannon Ebner with David Reinfurt, A Hudson Yard: April, 2015, 2014–15, from the series A HUDSON YARD. Inkjet print, 70 3/8 × 47 in. (178.8 × 119.4 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of the artists 2019.16.12. Photograph by Timothy Schenck. Commissioned and produced by High Line Art. Presented by Friends of the High Line and the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation

$A black and white print of textured materials and refracted light.$