"For The National 4, Williams, an Italian-born, Melbourne-based artist, is exhibiting photographs from her archive – as she did for the exhibition unfixed: σκιά σκιά σκιά ombra ombra ombra shadow shadow shadow (2021). The image selection circulates throughout the space, hanging for a set time before being exchanged for other photographs, inviting repeated visits to witness this choreography. The site and exhibition duration become materials themselves, revealing how meaning evolves as the photographs literally circulate in the time and space of the gallery – a process not dissimilar to image circulation in our lives.

Yet Williams doesn’t confuse time with its more human experience: pace. Pace is the time we are forced to set through external pressures. Consider Williams’ image of window light illuminating a yellowing clockface. It’s either 8.00am or 8.00pm. It appears to be as literal as time gets, yet the clockface and the photograph don’t designate the time itself, but the abstract measurement of it." 

Tiarney Miekus 

Exhibition Documentation: Janni Carter, Jacquie Manning, Jessica Maurer.