The Transition of Things

TTOT is a showing space taking place in multiple rooms across the city of Pittsburgh. Works shown at TTOT have no more value than the ones that are not shown—art has, for a time now, being synonym for revealing the present, some kind of special lens granting access to an unobserved excess of meaning in reality captured by the intuition of the artist. We defer such ministerial doing to the actors carrying out this duty and stay at the art’s transient stage of unaccomplished, outnumbered, and unending practice of intervening other practices at the time of being meddled by them as well.

Art works and the understanding they promote are encrypted as one reality, which we can’t split but only intensify. TTOT rejoices in overwhelming the concept as much as the materiality we think and perceive. We avoid conceiving art as a token trading matter for knowledge in the usual means of providing an arrangement of things that gains the certainty of producing a statement. The richness of art’s thought takes place when it clashes against one’s thinking. No result is apparent, and concepts only thrive if thinking keeps conceiving.

Works abide rooms to a certain extent. In galleries and museums, the blending with the quietness of the walls leaves the work at the mercy of the lighting; on surfaces on the street, at the passer-by’s speed. Here, the purpose of the visit: looking for it. We want to show that showing work is also going to it. Knowing that the space where it is is also a transition.