The vanishing present

A new body of work from Jennifer Trouton at the Molesworth Gallery, Dublin this winter, illustrates her continuing repre


The vanishing present

With the accelerated pace of contemporary life, brought about by urbanization, new technologies, cheap travel or what has been termed globalization, space is expanding whereas time is shrinking. Svetlana Boym suggests this has led to a contemporary nostalgia that is not only about the past but ‘the vanishing present.’ Rather than a longing for place, there is a reflective yearning for a different time, or ‘the slower rhythms of our dreams’.

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