2010 Curator Sarah Robayo Sheridan

Exhibition B: Downtown Core (East)

The Night of Future Past

To survive the night without sleep is to live outside standard time. With the circadian clock stopped, the past may be confused with a possible future. Remove this diurnal passage between night and day, and we find ourselves living inside the past, present and future simultaneously. The night of future past transposes one tense for another; and is composed of histories revisited, futures explored and the present in flux.

— Sarah Robayo Sheridan

Biography:

Sarah Robayo Sheridan is Director of Exhibitions and Publications at Mercer Union. She trained as a curator in the Curatorial Practice Program of the California College of the Arts, completing her MA thesis on the visual culture of sleep. She has also been active in the dissemination of contemporary art through her parallel work as an editor, a writer and a graphic designer. In 2009, she was nominated for the Young Curator’s Invitational, a prize of the Ricard Foundation, Paris.