The Eternal Present

Tempus Projects - Tampa, FL
April 22, 2022 - May 27, 2022

A solo exhibition by Lucia Riffel, curated by Dashboard

Have you ever scrolled so far you found yourself?

A waking dream amidst the buzz of the everyday. Anxieties draining from the tip of your scrolling finger. Beyond sight, and into the realm of feeling. Alone, held, in the solace of your own being. Present.

The Eternal Present poses the concept that dissociation through technology can provide a space for rest, reconnection, and processing. Enter the internal dimension where time and space become elastic. Quiet cosmic movements of the mundane hang thick in the air, slowly cycling into oblivion. Monotony mingles with the ethereal. Colors melt, portals open, and waves crash along illusory shores. The moment stretches, and pause sets in.

All photos courtesy of Aleksandra Bugrii

PRESS

Installation artist Lucia Riffel is in Tampa and wants to unlock the place in between your mind and your telephone screen - Creative Loafing Tampa
Lucia Riffel on Art in Your Ear - 88.5 WMNF

About Lucia

Lucia Riffel is an installation and animation artist based in Tallahassee, FL. Riffel earned her Bachelor of Arts (2015) in Studio Art and Art History at the University of Minnesota, Morris, and her Master of Fine Arts (2018) at Florida State University. She navigates the space between physical, digital, and psychological realms in her interdisciplinary practice. Her otherworldly works have been shown at Day & Night Projects, Urban Glass, The Wiregrass Museum, and Carnation Contemporary. She has been awarded residencies at Laboratory Residency and Stay Home Gallery as well as Drum Machine Editions, publishing a set of 3 animated flipbooks made during her time there. Most recently, Riffel's works have graced our minds and screens through virtual exhibition screensavor at The Neon Heater, and IRL exhibition Waiting Room at Laundromat Art Space in Miami, Florida.

Lucia’s work leads viewers to the place between their minds and their screens, between space and time, between thought and feeling, and into the everyday sublime. She creates spaces in-screen and in-real-life that mix the surreal, cinematic, and commonplace through 3D animation and installation. Looping slowly yet infinitely, these spaces allow one to look through the mirror of the screen and enter a meditative headspace beyond as well as within. The post-internet culture of distraction leads our minds to occupy themselves in any way except internally - her work utilizes these same experiential stimuli to awaken interiority in a suspended metaphysical twilight zone.