Take a journey through time and behold the past, present and future all wrapped up into one exhibition down in the Piccadilly Arcade.

Waiariki Bay of Plenty Polytechnic is presenting the ‘Replay/Relay' exhibition, which is on display to the public for free until July 4.

Created by Year 2 Bachelor of Creative Industries students, the exhibition features 13 moving-image installations that explore and dissect the concept of ‘time'.

'We gave the students a brief and received 13 different interpretations, so this exhibition will truly inspire people to look at the past, present and future in a whole range of different ways,” says Media, Arts and Design group leader Mary Stewart.

'One student filmed himself playing video games for 10 hours straight but sped it up to show while he's in the moment time becomes irrelevant; the ‘time flies when you're having fun' notion.

'Another looks at the rituals around time, how they take their medication at the same time every morning, while another looks at how time's evolved from hour-glasses, analogue clocks to digital and beyond.”

It's the second CBD pop-up exhibition run by the polytechnic and follows on from 2015's successful The Project Room, which presented a range of photographic, graphic design, moving image, painting, sculpture and fashion design works.

Mary says ‘Replay/Relay' continues the polytech's collaboration with Downtown Tauranga and Tuskany on their ‘Students in the City' initiative which aims to showcase students and their works while adding to the revitilisation of the Tauranga CBD.

'We're getting good at creating pop-up events that highlight spaces in the CBD. The Spring St space we used for The Project Room last year ended up being filled straight after we finished our exhibition, which was really cool.”

Waiariki Bay of Plenty Polytechnic's ‘Replay/Relay' is in Piccadilly Arcade until July 4. The exhibition is manned Thursday to Sundays, 10am-2pm.