Reseña

Revealing (In)visible Times

11 September - 19 October 2025

The Heong Gallery at Downing College, Cambridge, is pleased to present Revealing (In)visible Times, a two-person exhibition featuring Brazilian-born artist Alexandre da Cunha and Chilean artist Francisca Aninat, curated by Valentina Gajardo. Through installation, textiles, and reconfigured found objects, the exhibition explores the experience of waiting, inertia, and overlooked durations in the daily lives of often unseen or transient communities.

At the heart of Revealing (In)visible Times is a shared inquiry into how time materialises – how it can linger in the fibres of everyday objects and places, from hospital waiting rooms to cleaning equipment. The physical hosts of ‘lost’ passages of time are transformed into artworks that foreground hidden narratives of care, displacement, and labour.

This catalogue presents the works of Da Cunha and Aninat, alongside the curatorial proposal by Valentina Gajardo and essays by scholars and curators. Together, these contributions explore and reveal different (in)visible times.