Christopher Robin Duncan - Poems
As part of its new series of exhibition, Deadbeat Club is pleased to present POEMS,
an exhibition of photography and textile works by CHRISTOPHER ROBIN DUNCAN.
In this new presentation of the Oakland-based multidisciplinary artist, sensorial half-
frame photographs, recently published in Poems, enter a dialogue with the artist’s
trademark textile work, visualizing evocative traces of cyclical times and natural
elements.
Known for his textile and sound work, Christopher Robin Duncan recently turned to
photography, rediscovering with a simple and sincere pleasure the medium that he
had, for a while, set aside. Marked by the question of time, and informed by an in-
tuitive, direct relationship with natural elements, Duncan’s practice unfolds anew by
the use of photography. Using a half frame camera which, by dividing the film in two,
doubles time and space by the same action, Duncan creates interstices—the time
of a heartbeat, of a fraction of a second—into which he slips, moves imperceptibly,
creating suspended moments.
The lo-fi yet precious views Duncan gathers are combined in the exhibition with his
large textile pieces. Exposed to the natural elements for long periods of time, ex-
posed to the sun and the rain, they are “harvested” depending on the moon cycles.
It is a delicate relationship to time that Duncan offers us with POEMS. We find there
the ties with seasons and natural cycles; we find there air, water, wind.
