Moving Through Time and Space brings together a selection of David Tomas' video works, from the earliest to the most recent, and aims to draw a trajectory that opens onto the many ramifications that span throughout the artist's body of work, without forgetting his writings and other often unclassifiable manifestations. Far from a retrospective, the works presented retrace three significant axes of the artist's practice, focusing on the moving image: firstly, his relationship to conceptual art of the 1970s, associated with his research on the history of science, manifesting tangibly in two older works, originally shot in 8 mm. This is followed by his investigations, through dual screen video animations, into the documentary and historical status of the single image — and its lacunae — which allow him to envisage the form that a new experimental cinema could take in the pursuit of a non-narrative history — an avenue of research that Tomas will explore by affirming photography as a figure of history's contradictions and paradoxes, since every detail revealed by a given photograph points to the absence of other details. He will further explore this idea of post-cultural and post-historical mechanisms in his series Lots by using the art economy to make a new — and vast — space for transcultural research.

The present project is thus an incursion into David Tomas' work as much as a recognition of the singularity of his thought process and the particular tendency of his work to put forth paradigms which reflect significant social, economic and technological changes. Change, necessarily, involves a moment of transition that reveals the moving space that the artist has often associated with the rite of passage, and for which moving images prove to offer an eloquent transposition. For Tomas, although the work acquires a fixed form, it is at the confluence of different systems of representation that it attests to its past, its history, its future and even its anticipated form.