Timothy Yanick Hunter

Microwave Background
09.08–10.07.2023
Room 2

Cosmic microwave background (CMBR) is understood as microwave radiation that fills all space in the observable universe. This collection of works refers to the cosmic microwave background by ways of endless repetition, expansion and reverberating possibilities. In its essence, the work aims to describe the unseen and unknown — in other ways, it  the work captures arrayed possibilities, ephemeralities and alternatives. Through this, I’m trying to convey complex ways of being — divergent states of intimacy, life, displacement and loss. Parallel to this is the fragmentation of history, specifically Black diasporic history, which is something that cannot be measured by dominant methods of study and observation.

Microwave Background is a view of history from a cosmic, ethereal vantage point; sampling moments and weaving them together. This work is the embrace of non-linearity, opacity, the unknown and ultimately the blackness of space and time.

— Timothy Yanick Hunter