Time is not an easy theme for an exhibition. It impinges on a daily, hourly, basis on all our lives, yet the narrative or artistic reflections it inspires can be dry, dusty, dull. But not in this smart and assured show, which explores time as a fluid, almost fantastical space - a moment out of life that can last as long as you want it to.
A film projection by Marijke van Warmerdam exemplifies this indulgent, endearing mood. Five jets pass overhead, leaving streams of energy and lines of smoke against dreamily blue skies, and it's like a moment recalled from childhood in its beauty and simplicity. As film it's clunky, deliberately amateurish stuff, all whirring equipment. But the whirring works as an imaginary echo of the planes soaring above - one looks into the film as if into a deep and lovely pool and, crucially, loses all track of time.
The same is true of Igor and Svetlana Kopystiansky's film Incidents, which is, knowingly, a load of rubbish. Following various bits of trash along New York's streets, it has an illogical loveliness (a pipe is entangled with the tape from a cassette; a broken umbrella flaps in the wind). Its tone is quite sarcastic too, as it follows its starlets - a carrier bag, a takeaway carton. They open up their secret selves to us and we begin the chase, discovering along the way that some discarded objects make better performers than others.
Graham Gussin's video projection Remembering and Forgetting at the Same Time captures some social performers (people leaving a cinema) unawares. This is the stuff of mundane moments, shown in footage played back and forwards, with much checking of watches, doing up of coats, glancing about. It's dreary and captivating at the same time, an all too familiar ennui suddenly making compulsive viewing.
Moment plays with that oscillation - between boredom and fascination - throughout, as in Emese Benczur's daily embroidery of clothing tape with the same phrase. It's about the future (there are new reels of tape and cotton stacked up) and about the accumulation of what has been and what may be. But ultimately, like the rest of the exhibition, it's about the depth and resonance, the possibilities of this moment, now.
• Until 20 May. Details: 01382 432000
