Night Before Day: Darren Almond On Nature’s Cycles

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At White Cube Hong Kong, Darren Almond’s Night Before Day exhibition features three groups of works that explore the constructs of time, place and memory.

Central to the exhibition is the willow, rooted in the British artist’s childhood memory of fishing beside a willow tree in a flooded mining pit near the British town of Wigan. This tree serves as a conduit for his ongoing exploration of the natural world’s cycles. 

His latest series of paintings, featuring the weeping willow motif with translucent washes of color, examines our relationship with seasonal changes. Works incorporating gold, silver, copper and palladium evoke the multiplicity of temporality, reflecting and activating the dynamic qualities of light and space to chart the passage of time. In the third group of works, numbers and grids provide a structured framework, shaping the artist’s investigations into how time is measured, represented and understood.