Time Is On Our Side

Exhibition by Black Quantum Futurism, part of the Entanglements of the Apocalypse programme by Mine Kaplangı. Archived materials from exhibition at VSSL Gallery from 27 February - 22 March 2026.

Black Quantum Futurism, as part of this exhibition, featured on our podcast þ thorns þ, Choreographing the Apocalypse. You can listen to the podcast here.

You can find out more about Camae and Rasheedah of Black Quantum Futurism on our People page.

Altar (Detail image) by Black Quantum Futurism, photo documentation by Baiba Sprance and Marco Berardi, 2026

Audio recording of the Exhibition Text

Time Is On Our Side draws on Black Quantum Futurism’s understandings of time, darkness, and information to reimagine the black hole from a site of destruction into one of creation and transformation. Akin to Irma Thomas’s version of Time Is On My Side—recorded before it was displaced, disconnected from its origin, and later reclaimed—the exhibition understands temporality as a non-linear experience: what crosses an event horizon is not necessarily destroyed or lost. It is only delayed, displaced, or rendered illegible outside the visible boundary of the Western linear timeline running from past to present to future.

At the centre of the exhibition, the Black Hole Viewfinder poses the event horizon as a threshold rather than a predetermined ending. It is a spacetime where my side turns into our side, and where private time crosses interstitially into shared durations. As with the black hole’s information paradox, recognition may arrive out of sequence—returned altered, yet still conveying an intentional message. Time, under these circumstances, can obscure, but it can also curve back on itself, revealing, redeeming, and restoring what was once considered lost.

Time Is On Our Side: Exhibition by Black Quantum Futurism, video documentation by Baiba Sprance and Marco Berardi, 2026

Interview with Black Quantum Futurism, CERN 2021

Counter Clockwise: Unmapping Black Temporalities from Greenwich Mean Timelines by Rasheedah Phillips

Black Hole ViewFinder installation (Detail image) by Black Quantum Futurism, 2011, photo documentation by Baiba Sprance and Marco Berardi, 2026