Andy Goldsworthy
Museum Exhibition

Time, Truth, and Other Immeasurables
Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, Salt Lake City, UT
September 11, 2026 - June 5, 2027

Time, Truth, and Other Immeasurables explores experiences that resist calculation.  Frameworks can be created to define the experiences on view, however, they cannot fully capture how we exist within them. This exhibition delves into artists whose work explores the forces that continue to shape our lives and yet remain unquantifiable. Time, truth, vastness, spirituality, deep time, and history as it unfolds in the moment. In an era driven by data and measurable outcomes, Time, Truth, and Other Immeasurables invites its visitors to embrace the often felt but rarely articulated ethereal. Andy Goldsworthy's Flag stained with earth from all fifty states of the USA. Flown in Scotland on the 3rd of November 2020 (2020) will be on display in the exhibition. The film originates from the artwork Red Flags, comprising fifty 5 x 8-foot flags, each stained red with earth collected from one of the fifty US states, offering further insight into the origins of the materials and the nature of the artist’s process.

 

Over the past 40 years, Andy Goldsworthy has gained a significant reputation for both his ephemeral works and his permanent installations that draw out the inherent character of the places where they are sited. The artist works with natural materials, such as leaves, sand, ice, and stone that often originate from the local site, to address notions of materiality, process, and temporality. Time in Goldsworthy’s practice is often understood in terms of “the bodily experience, the motion of the body through space over time,” as captured in his ephemeral works and recent videos.
 
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