In All Things Pass, Darren Almond follows the passage of time with links to places all over the world and spanning 5,000 years of history. The title piece is a video installation filmed on the steps of Chand Baori, a spectacular 9th-century well in India. Video footage on six huge screens shows shining green algae on the water, night sky above, rain running down the steps, local youth bathing in the well, both the myth of the place and the concrete everyday. As a counterpoint, Almond exhibits photographs of a Neolithic stone circle on the Orkney Islands that look startlingly like modernist sculpture. Modernism is likewise referenced in Almond’s number paintings, in his sculptures made from flip clocks, in poems realized as train plaques—all pieces closely related, which Herbert Martin explores in his essay: “What we have here is an orchestration of thematics, such that everywhere one looks, a poetics of the systemic reappears, rephrased—and the viewer is emphatically within it; it’s an environment.” This book takes the reader within that environment, first displayed in solo show at Galerie Max Hetzler, in numerous video stills, installation shots, and work images on double spreads and several fold-outs.

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In collaboration with Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin