PLAT 11.5 ORDINARY
Allyson Vieira
RE: Work Over Time
In Allyson Vieira’s work, time is often stretched, folded, and twisted: the present and future treated as if they belong to an ancient archeological site. Her works employ construction materials and debris, reflecting the constant churn of building and demolition around her.
A long-time resident of New York City, Vieira has seen the effects of globalization and gentrification in the city first-hand. Walking among New York’s ever-multiplying demolition and construction sites, she internalizes this simultaneous shifting. The City is neither something being built nor something being destroyed; it lies between what once was and what is becoming. Occupying that liminal space, the work confounds our linear vision of time, uniting past and future within an object, making the present an impossible place to be.