Sharon Lockhart, the suspended time

Away from any documentary convention and any narrative velleity, Sharon Lockhart’s films confront the viewer with a phenomenological approach to time and landscape, through long still scenes. Most of her projects are the result of real-time scanning of small groups of individuals in precarious situations. Combining conceptual rigor and the poetry of the present moment, these paintings of the everyday plunge the spectator into a simultaneous state of meditation and reflection.