Danny Jarratt

Temporal Crash

June 7th – 29th, 2024

Temporal Crash explores the relationship between time, humans, and success. This research uses time travel to explores preconceived notions of time and how humans are policed by time. We have cultural timelines for almost any task we undertake. Aren’t you too old to be playing video games? Aren’t you too young to have a child? My project proposes a non-linear understanding of time, freeing the mind to imagine new ways of living and success.

The initial shapes and forms of my paintings are inspired by 1980s science fiction media. I selected this media because it is simultaneously futuristic and nostalgic. Then, I reworked these ideas with time-travel tropes. The ideas fall through time, crashing into 1950s space-age furniture design and ricocheting off 1920s minimalism. Rather than replicating nostalgic visuals, I intersected with other timelines to create anachronisms.

I use industrial processes, such as laser-cutting and airbrushing, to ‘manufacture’ these anachronisms. My responses are closer to manufactured plastic objects rather than paintings.

Rather than escape to the future, let’s break time and sit in its colourful and timeless demise.

Temporal Crash is developed under a Helpmann Academy-sponsored mentorship with James Dodd and supported with a Projects Grant from Arts SA.