REBECCA LOEWEN Just for Staying Together, Esker Foundation, October 2015 - January 2016

Antonioni concludes his sketch for a film, Just for Staying Together, with a question: 'I've always wondered whether it's always right to provide an ending for stories, whether literary, theatrical, or cinematic. Once it's been firmly channelized a story's in danger of dying inwardly unless you give it another dimension, unless you let is tempo prolong itself in that external world where we, the protagonists of all stories, live. Where nothing's conclusive.' I constructed Just for Staying Together as a three-dimensional tableau that affords the story a space outside of time in which its tempo may slow to a resonant pause.