Ron DiRito – Beyond Time: The Simultaneity of Now

What happens when the act of reading is disrupted—when the page, that thin sheet of paper, is gone?
Yet the words remain.

This question is at the center of Beyond Time: The Simultaneity of Now, an exhibition by Ron DiRito.

In these works, DiRito creates palimpsests—texts layered upon texts—where the page no longer separates one thought from another, no longer orders language in time.

Instead, each panel becomes a site of compression: words collapsing into words,

sentences folding into themselves, forming images made entirely of language.

Meaning no longer resides in narrative

but in the autonomous forms of the text itself.

Stacked and layered, the palimpsest pages present everything all at once.

For viewers, they resolve not as text to be read but as pure visual experience.

These images blot out the world. They have no past. There is no next.

They live entirely in the present.

This is The Simultaneity of Now.