Grace Ndiritu : an absolute river / authors: Dr. Jason Allen-Paisant, Kirsty Flockhart, Sanya Malik, Lorenzo Menegazzo, Livia Nervi, Fei Xu, Mala Yamey, Wan Kit Yeung, Jieyi Zhang ; edited by Mala Yamey, Jieyi Zhang.

"Globally, we have experienced, and are still experiencing an unprecedented event in our lifetimes; the pandemic suddenly ground most things we took for granted to a halt. In this period, we have all had different visions of the passing of time. One person might have experienced the time of the pandemic as a very long period of stillness, and another might have felt it as a very quick flash in their lives. The eight of us, living in different places and coming from different cultural backgrounds, realised that time was a subjective experience as opposed to an objective linear progression. Together, we considered how capitalist and imperialist systems in the West have manipulated us to live within a world governed by a universalised chronology. As curators, we want to rethink the nature of time and to steal back its subjectivities from standardised "clock time" for our audiences. Researching LUX's archive as our starting point, artist Grace Ndiritu's films offered possible alternatives to linear time through her belief in "deep time" as being part of her creative process. "Deep time" refers to the time scale of geological events, which is extensive, almost unimaginably greater than the time scale of human history. Her three films "A Week in the News" (2010), "Raiders of the Lost Ark" (2015), and "Black Beauty" (2021), centre our exhibition."--From page 2.