Time, Video installation, 2010

Exhibition History—> Nuit Blanche 2010, Gallery 1313, Toronto

    “My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery—always buzzing, humming, soaring roaring diving, and then buried in mud. And why? What’s this passion for?” (from a letter dated 28 Dec. 1932) Virginia Woolf

    Thinking about the moments of my life when I loose the sense of time and detach from external world and retreat into my innermost, I made a video of an imaginary clock in which time speeds up and slows down randomly.

    The work creates a juxtaposition between the standard mechanical time, and human’s inner time that Henry Bergson addresses as Duration. In the video the time running in the countdown from 8 to 2 at the beginning, represents the linear time, whereas in the body of the movie I changed the duration of each frame in order to give a sense of speeding up and slowing down in time. Overlapped numbers, penetrating into each other make the counting unstable for the viewer who is used to count sequentially. 

A short Review: http://www.blogto.com/arts/2010/10/nuit_blanche_2010_the_best_and_worst_of_zone_c/