Material is often understood as stable, yet across contemporary practice, it increasingly functions otherwise; materials carry within them traces of time, systems of circulation, or conditions of perception. Kahlil Robert Irving, Jedediah Caesar, and Maddie Butler operate within this unstable terrain—images, objects, and substances are shaped by processes that resist permanence. Across their respective practices, material remains unresolved, layered, mediated, and reconfigured, holding together multiple temporalities and contexts simultaneously.
