Does the current moment truly exist?
It is made of fractions of seconds suspended between the past and the future. The instant you think about the current, it is already gone. It moves too quickly for the mind to catch, so perhaps we can only feel it with our senses, raw and unprocessed. The second those sensations settle, they become memory—and belong to the past. When we receive a feeling without actually experiencing it, we are imagining, leaning toward the future.
As for the current—the transition that lives in between—it is little more than a threshold. And could a door, after all, ever be called a room? Maybe.
Fabric replicas of homes. Explores portable memory and the ritual of remembering personal spaces.
Do Ho Suh, Seoul Home, 2012; silk, metal structures, 1457x717x391cm
Whiteread, R. (2000) Nameless Library. Concrete. Judenplatz, Vienna, Austria.
Burri, A. (1984–2015) Cretto di Burri. Concrete sculpture, dimensions variable. Gibellina, Sicily, Italy.
New (left) and old (right) Naiku shrines during the 60th sengu, 1973
"An Eskimo custom offers an angry person release by walking the emotion out of his or her system in a straight line across the landscape; the point at which the anger is conquered is marked with a stick, bearing witness to the strength or length of the rage".
Lippard, L. (1983) Overlay: Contemporary Art and the Art of Prehistory.
Francis Alÿs – Paradox of Praxis I (Sometimes Making Something Leads to Nothing), Mexico City, 1997
The Clock. A monumental work that uses thousands of film clips to synchronize cinematic time with real-time, creating a collective ritual of time-checking for the viewer.
Marclay, C. (2010) The Clock [Video installation]
Tehching Hsieh, ‘One Year Performance 1980–1981’, at 2017 Venice Biennale