Engaging Consciousness. Time and Duration in Holly Bynoe''s Compounds

In this essay, Gabrielle A. Hezekiah reflects on the experience of time in the photo collages of Holly Bynoe. Taking a cue from Michel Poivert, Hezekiah both recognizes and moves beyond the social fact of decolonial representation in these images towards an investigation of the psychic fact of consciousness that is inherent in them. Drawing from the insights of Henri Bergson and Jean-Paul Sartre, the author suggests that Bynoe returns the viewer to a form of duration that one might call an archival present, allowing time itself to be imaged in consciousness.