Seconds fall from the sky

From the FMC collection, spanning decades and cultures.

Seconds fall from the sky– a line from one of my poems– is a ‘Sculpting in Time’ state of mind. Existential, mystical portals frame and re-frame the poetic space. Silence, sound, black, white, colour. Moments to heal, to reflect, to be. Temporal strokes under ten minutes. I’ll carry the silence back home with me.

Will read a few poems from a recently published small collection in ‘Luig Ten Co. Vol 3’ published by Wry Press, Colorado.

Program:

Saul Levine, August moon and sea, 1997 (colour silent 4 mins)

Priyanka Das, Inferno I saw you on my way to the garden, 2022 (colour sound 6:4 mins)

Gao Wei, Lightness, 2022 (colour sound? 3.17 mins)

Hollis Frampton, Yellow Springs: Magellan Vanishing Point # 1, 1972 (colour silent 5:5 mins)

Malcolm Le Grice, Berlin Horse, 1970 (colour sound 7 mins)

Larry Gotheim, Doorway 1971 (b+w silent 7.5 mins)

Matt Mckinzie, Queer Dream Triptych, 2023 (colour sound 2:5 mins)

Didi Hu, Shaolin don’t stop: Face Q editor, 2024 (colour sound 1 min)

Kalpana Submaranian, Tattva, 2018 (colour sound 4:2 mins)

Leslie Thornton, X-Tracts, 1975 (b+w sound 9 mins)

Anne Colvin, Florence came across a secret door in the cedar paneling and a seahorse on the purple carpet, 2025 (colour b+w sound 2:26 mins)

Stan Brakhage, Angels 1971 (colour silent 2 mins)

Total running time: 54 mins

Curator's statement:

Anne sculpts with time, memory, words, materiality, psychological states across film, painting, and poetry. An installation meeting point for ephemeral experiences, she stages presence, absence and liminal place. Thinking about ecology, deep listening, the body as site, and mystical space.

Sound and colour saturations, fractured gestures, filmic iterations, combine with tension between temporal moments. Often inflected with surreal tones these journeys are choreographed into forms of poetic and sculptural unity.

Curator's bio:

Recent exhibitions include One Minute Volume Twelve, LÁ Art Museum, Hveragerdi,

Iceland (2025); Photography as Specimen, Mills Art Museum, Oakland, California (2025); C.A.R. Media Art Fair, Essen, Germany with Director’s Lounge Contemporary Art and Media, Berlin (2025).

Anne’s work has been exhibited in venues such as SFMoMA, San Francisco; MASS MoCA, Massachusetts; Torrance Art Museum, CA; Berkeley Art Museum, CA; Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, New York; Spencer Brownstone Gallery, New York; Jancar Gallery, Los Angeles; Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai; Modern Edinburgh Film School; GoMA, Glasgow; Cooper Gallery, Dundee; BALTIC, Gateshead and Maximillian Wolfgang Gallery, London among many others.

Recent published poetry includes Luigi Ten Co, Colorado; Hexentexte, Los Angeles and poetry held in Finlay Artists’ Book Collection, DJCAD, Dundee. Anne also ran a project space in San Francisco from 2004 - 2008 dedicated to moving image.

annecolvin.com.