Anatomie de l'éternité

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"This experiment consists of cutting up time into different moments, identical in visual terms. A closed-circuit video shows a monitor an image of two different natures: the first is a recording of the subject, thus a delayed image; the second is the same image, but live. An electronic switching (automatic, random, or manual) from one image to the other endlessly tips the live image either into the present, or into the past. One of the goals of this is to create a temporal insecurity that characterizes reflection. Only the intervention of the spectator with his hand or body, placed in front of the camera, informs him of the present or past nature of the image. This controlling operation, quickly discouraging in its quick and random aspect, incites the spectator to question himself on the nature of "time" — the cutting up of time in the technical and philosophical senses, in the past, present, and future. During the experiment, which last 45 minutes for each exercise, a reading of a text by J.L. Borges titles "A History of Eternity" is shown on video. This text becomes a decoration that illustrates or is illustrated by the proposed video exercise." (Source, artist's website)

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