‘timelines’, an inaugural solo exhibition by Jennifer Lara White, explores the relationship between the cross-temporal subjectivation of identity and ontological meta-spectatorship, questioning where and how we can come to encounter the real as we traverse between them.

The ontology of a persisting entity (object or event) through time is equal to its distinct temporal parts. As these parts enter into relations, the nature of this entity becomes fundamentally cross-temporal. The exhibition takes place as a reconstruction of these temporal parts, through archival film and sound, personal and anonymous found objects, and time-based digital mediums which reveal the synthesis of these realities.

Across the space, Jennifer maps psychogeographical elements of personal nostalgia into a memory-hybrid landscape, bringing the viewer’s attention to the role of spectatorship as the meaning-giving entity of our experiences. Nostalgic viewership validates the need to know one’s experience as having meaning, that to be witness to one’s past is to affirm its reality – and by extension, affirm the reality of the self. We are led to consider, therefore, if who we are is the part which changes (conceptual models of the self), or, perhaps, if it is the part which stays the same (the awareness which bears witness).

Written by Jorja Rynne (@palej3wel)

‘343 miles/second'

waveform visualizer, table, couch, 2024.

untitled (talking to grandma)

vintage telephone, archival audio recording (1975), 2024.

‘7days: when we meet in dreams…

bed frame, bedside table, glass panel, polycarbonate sheet, two channel video loop 2:53, 2024.

…dream of being transported from quiet despair

furniture parts, vintage desk calendars (1953, 1993), archival desk notepad pages (1997, c.2013), homemade cassette tapes, collection of diary excerpts, silver ring, marble piece from the remains of the statue of Mary at St Anne's church, Bondi, 2024.

where heaven and earth touch

digital print, polycarbonate sheet, reflective film, led lights, 2024.

a. pressure cooker -

you, more lovely than the day

compilation of found audio from homemade cassettes tapes, 2:26:31 -

toast and marmalade for tea - tin tins

‘sunflower’ - unknown artist

guitar demo tape - dave scott

‘a. pressure cooker’ - unknown artist

‘for bruce’ - lawrence tibbett compilation

I would like to acknowledge the traditional owners of Gadigal Country, the unceeded lands on which I live and work. I pay my respects to elders past, present, and emerging.