Kairos (Lost You Somewhere), 1999-2007 (installation detail), wire hanger, beaded flowers, silk, shells, buttons, found materials, variable dimensions, courtesy of the artist
Kairos (Lost You Somewhere), 1999-2007 (installation detail), wire hanger, beaded flowers, silk, shells, buttons, found materials, variable dimensions, courtesy of the artist
Kairos (Lost You Somewhere), 1999-2007 (installation detail), wire hanger, beaded flowers, silk, shells, buttons, found materials, variable dimensions, courtesy of the artist
Kairos (Lost You Somewhere), 1999-2007 (installation detail), wire hanger, beaded flowers, silk, shells, buttons, found materials, variable dimensions, courtesy of the artist
Kairos (Lost You Somewhere), 1999-2007 (installation detail), wire hanger, beaded flowers, silk, shells, buttons, found materials, variable dimensions, courtesy of the artist
Kairos (Lost You Somewhere), 1999-2007 (installation detail), wire hanger, beaded flowers, silk, shells, buttons, found materials, variable dimensions, courtesy of the artist
Kairos (Lost You Somewhere), 1999-2007 (installation view), wire hanger, beaded flowers, silk, shells, buttons, found materials, variable dimensions, courtesy of the artist
Kairos (Lost You Somewhere), 1999-2007 (installation detail), wire hanger, beaded flowers, silk, shells, buttons, found materials, variable dimensions, courtesy of the artist
Goran Tomcic
Goran Tomcic frequently uses cheap and shiny materials, interweaving them into poetic assemblages concerned with temporal themes such as love, loss and death. This installation is composed of a series of suspended units that change and evolve over time as the work is displayed in various exhibition contexts. In Greek, the term "Kairos" refers to the qualitative dimension of time - as opposed to "Chronos," which describes chronological, quantifiable time; it describes an "intermediate time," an undefined moment in which something special takes place. As a child growing up in Split, Croatia, Tomcic became familiar with the term "Kairos" thanks to a marble relief in the nearby city of Trigor. Dating to the third century B.C.E., it depicts a running young man who personifies the god of the fleeting moment. This installation provides a lyrical interpretation of this "intermediate moment"; it bespeaks a longing for love and happiness, for that ephemeral moment that is etched in our memory as a form of yearning.
Born in Split, Croatia, 1964; lives and works in New York
