current exhibition

intermission museum of art (ima) is proud to launch pulse and rhythm, featuring a collaborative work, interior lights, by lynn silverman and jason [removed]; pulse and rhythm will be on view throughout the month of april 2021 as part of ima’s inaugural volume i series.

interior lights, 2019, is a hybrid work combining black and white photographs with [removed]; the video presents an imaginary house and sounds generated from electromagnetic fields unique to each light source [removed]; in actuality, this house is a composite of views photographed in different [removed]; for many of us “home” connotes a personal space and may be thought of as a metaphor for [removed]; perhaps amplified now more than ever, is the meaning we place on our immediate surroundings, necessitated by our need to quarantine during the last twelve months of the COVID-19 pandemic.

interior lights blurs the boundary between the individual and the world through shared experience, as evidenced by the number of framed photographs of family, friends and mementos collected from everyday life, travels or important [removed]; clock faces serve as pauses or intervals between groups of [removed]; light and sound are the connecting threads throughout the film, while the camera journeys from the basement foundation to the attic eaves, highlighting intimate details of domestic life along the [removed]; the literal and metaphorical depictions of pulse and rhythm play a role in determining space and time through our evermore public facing personal selves.

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upcoming event

sunday brunch |
screening + discussion with lynn silverman and jason sloan hosted by, john ros, co-founding director and curator at ima and amy eva raehse, executive director and partner at goya contemporary & goya-girl press.
 

future exhibitions

volume i | 2020-2021

may 2021
adaptation | lindiwe matshikiza | flora parrott

june 2021
t/here or t/here | jodi hays | ayanah moor

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about ima

intermission museum of art (ima) was founded in 2020 by rose van mierlo and john ros, in response to the cultural, social, environmental, economic and political fissures that make themselves evermore present during times of crisis and put stress on accepted systems of operation. ima provides a space for critical thinkers to respond to these moments of friction by investigating them as meaningful sites of production, instigating dialogues which will culminate in a public archive.

ima’s name references the question of open space: the flipping movement of a hand searching through archives, gaps in the pavement, performance interludes, tv-commercials, coffee breaks and silent pauses; all moments of unpoliced disruption that are typically un-institutional. at its core, ima therefore proposes the museum as a site of uncertainty; a building without walls; a non-hierarchical collection of interdisciplinary narratives and voices; both a guest and a host; and an exercise in cross-pollination. it resists the architectural premise of power that underwrites the white cube, democratizing the exhibition in terms of access. instead, its architectural premise is that of lateral networks; its vision decentralized and participatory.