Hourglass Sand in the Vaseline

"Hourglass Sand in the Vaseline, Dyment's third solo exhibition at MKG127, continues the artist's exploration of the language and idioms inherent to cinema and popular culture. Formal tropes such as the diptych, the duet, the recto-verso and the alternate-take are employed to investigate black-outs, gaps, and other temporal disruptions and ellipses."                        

- gallery press release

Ultrachrome ink on rag paper. Edition of 3    

A diptych taken from a collection of over one hundred film stills that feature instances of the camera taking the point of view of the protagonist as he/she is drugged, knocked unconscious, or awakening from either.  

Ultrachrome ink on rag paper. Edition of 3    

A diptych taken from a collection of over one hundred film stills that feature instances of the camera taking the point of view of the protagonist as he/she is drugged, knocked unconscious, or awakening from either.  

Ultrachrome ink on rag paper. Edition of 3    

A diptych taken from a collection of over one hundred film stills that feature instances of the camera taking the point of view of the protagonist as he/she is drugged, knocked unconscious, or awakening from either.  

Biographies, shelf, photograph

An excerpt from a larger ongoing collaborative project with Scott Rogers that looks at backwards histories, in particular the connection between contemporary performance art and Diogenes of Sinope (404 BC), by way of Greil Marcus, Walter Benjamin and Blackadder. This work concretizes a letter rock critic Lester Bangs wrote to the Soho Weekly News in which he claims that he invented punk, but he stole it from a series of musicians, activists, actors, writers, a president and eventually Lady Godiva.

Letterpress print diptych. Edition of 10

A call and response with dialogue from animated angels and devils, often offering conflicting advice. The frames are hung so that they appear to hover over the viewers shoulders like a good and bad 'conscience'. 

A twenty minute video consisting entirely of epilogues from films, arranged chronologically according to the date noted. There are 100, one for every year of the 20th century. 

Vinyl picture disk. Edition of 3

Nixon’s secretary illustrates to the press corps the improbable choreography that led to the erasure of 18.5 minutes of subpoenaed audiotape, which is presented in its entirety, on the disk.

Bookwork. Edition of 50

The aforementioned erasure, described by reporters, audio and forensic experts.

Dedicated to Arthur Lintgen, an American physician who was awarded a brief moment of fame in the late seventies when it was discovered that he could read the grooves of vinyl records and identify the music they contained. The bookwork uses the verso-recto of the page to illustrate the A and B sides of a clear vinyl recording of water lapping at the seashore. 

VHS tape, magnet, slipcase. Edition of 3     

Christopher Nolan's 2000 film outfitted with a rare-earth magnet just beyond the playhead, erasing the film immediately after the viewer watches it. Dedicated to Clive Wearing, a musicologist whose retrograde  and anterograde amnesia make it impossible for him to retain a memory for longer than a few moments.