The exhibition draws it title from a song off of Arthur Russel's album "World of Echo." The only album to be released during his lifetime before his passing in 1992, the album consists of a series of collage-like echoes and samples, bound together by looping lyrics. This looping - sonically akin to a stutter - suggests an utterance that fails to reach a full resolution. The lyrics point to this impasse: "And I'm hi-ding/ Your present from you./ Where you see where it is, but dont know where it is." The "present" acts as a double-edged sword - on the one hand referring to a gift, and the other, time. Just as Russe;'s composition aesthetically calls up the past through loops and samples while lyrically referring to the present (a disjunction), Brent and Popov employ a similar strategy, through the creation of works that gras[ at opening a dialogue with loved opnes that remain inaccessible and caught in time's torrential flow. -Leo Cocar