Don't miss 'Once Upon a Time - Now, Then, Where, When' - on until 17 July, Dunedin Community Gallery

By Ōtepoti He Puna Auaha | Dunedin UNESCO City of Literature | Posted: Tuesday Jul 14, 2026

You won't want to miss this incredible exhibition. There is so much to take in, beautiful art and lots of interactive elements. Check out these interactive poem shells.

All life evolved through rhythms shaped by lunisolar cycles of light and dark governed by the sun, moon and stars. Although we organise our lives through clocks and calendars, time itself remains elusive. We feel it first through the rhythms of our bodies, through memory, change and the gradual accumulation of experience.

Some cultures understand time as a sequence of past, present and future, while others experience it as a continuous stream in which all moments remain connected.

This exhibition brings together artists and scientists exploring the many ways time is sensed, measured and recorded — in emotion and memory, in air, earth and living tissue, in cores, carbon dating, dendrology, light and space-time. Together, these works consider how we live within time, and how time lives within us.

As Carlo Rovelli asks: “Do we exist in time, or does time exist in us?”

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