Matta presents Eloise Hess.
The medium of desire is time.
Desire never attains its aim, just as the second hand on
an analog clock keeps time at a distance by elongating, indefinitely, the space between the minutes and hours that divide a day, or a life.
Vision, alongside desire, persists in afterimages.
Hess photographs her father—a photographer experiencing the incremental forgetting associated with early-onset Alzheimer’s disease—trying to see as
his capacity to picture the world, to remember and put it in order, fades. The obscure or
not taken shots that her paintings discretely develop do not offer a revelation but instead
point to a shared time. A desire to touch time’s movements through sight opens the
orientation of the picture, and the relation, to change.