In this audiovisual installation I react to today’s accelerated society and reflect on my own “pausing” and re-evaluation of priorities. I use artifacts in the form of photographs and videos from my internship in Portugal and my long-term stay in the Portuguese countryside. There, time stood still for a while, and I had the time to do nothing, to laze around, to think.

I project videos capturing fluid movement through the landscape, the ocean, the rocks, onto mirrored objects inspired by the cliffs – I see them as a metaphor for the world that flows and affects us, and we are often no longer even anesthetized to it, so it just bounces off of us in a kind of jumble of light reflections, leaving almost nothing that sticks. The whole installation is accompanied by the surrounding sound of my voice reciting diary snippets from this time.

Audiovisual installation – 8 × different sized mirror objects, projectors, sound

Author of the photo: Filip Trubač