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Tess Martin

Artist working across animation, installation, and expanded cinema

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Time as Material

This body of work examines time as something that can be shaped, layered, and physically encountered rather than abstractly measured. Through animation and installation, temporal processes such as accumulation, erosion, 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 perceptual space.

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