Dressing A Window by Stephanie Jane Burt in the exhibition Time Passes by Singapore Art Museum. ST PHOTO: LIM YAOHUI
Between two steel frames representing windows, Burt drapes materials repurposed from her previous works, such as ribbon, netting and lace. The work draws on the Time Passes passage in To The Lighthouse, in which the housekeeper of a decaying holiday home comes in to open windows and air the house. It explores the notion of the gaze, how in order to care for something, you must look at it.
