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Matt Gagnon’s sculptural practice is rooted in a deep investigation of material, process, and perception. In Increments of Time, he extends this exploration to consider how light and form embody the passage of time itself. Each work is built through a process of layering, wood, metal, concrete, and other elemental materials, assembled into stacked, totemic structures that both contain and reveal a luminous core.
These incremental layers echo the way time is marked: by moments that accumulate, by cycles of light and shadow, by the steady rhythm of growth and erosion. The sculptures are not fixed monuments, but dynamic presences that shift with their surroundings. As daylight moves across their surfaces, or as viewers change their vantage point, the works transform, revealing new patterns and depths.
Gagnon’s practice emphasizes the dialogue between permanence and transience. Materials with weight and solidity are shaped to hold an immaterial force, light, that constantly changes, never fully grasped. In this tension, the sculptures speak to the way we measure time not only through clocks and calendars, but through sensory experience, memory, and perception.
Increments of Time invites viewers into a slowed, attentive state, where the nuances of light, texture, and form become markers of presence. In these works, time is not abstract, but tangible, an accumulation of layers, moments, and transformations held within sculptural form.
