The Duration of Elsewhere brings photography and video together in an exhibition about a slower rhythm of looking and experiencing. Especially in urban environments, Hans Wilschut seeks ways to pay more attention to what is taking place in public space. His images often take just a little more time, and within the everyday, a longing for another place remains palpable.
In Hans Wilschut’s work, that ‘elsewhere’ is constantly shifting. Sometimes it appears in the form of an unexpected season in a city where you would not expect it. Sometimes the city resembles a film set, in which architecture constantly recurs as the backdrop to daily life. The work moves between two ways of looking: the instantaneous moment of photography and the more fluid time of video, in which time does not stand still but is actually stretched.
In this exhibition, we see a multifaceted selection of works with which Wilschut aims to set a different pace in contrast to the rapid stream of visual input that passes us by daily. It is less about demanding attention, and more about creating space for moments of slowing down and contemplation. Moments in which you, as a viewer, step out of the obvious for a moment and can look anew. Sometimes that feels a bit jarring, like when you come home but your thoughts are still somewhere else.