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Tess Martin

Artist working across animation, installation, and expanded cinema

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Time as Material

“There isn’t a single time in the universe” - Carlo Rovelli.
This body of work examines time as something that is relative. Through animation and installation, temporal processes such as sequentiality, repetition, and duration become visible as material transformation. These works often explore expanded temporal scales (geological, cosmological, or generational) alongside lived experience, allowing different forms of time to coexist within shared space.

How Now, House?, 2025, 13’ (replacement animation, time lapse, rotoscope).
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