martin bonadeo | texts | real time still life

The image given back by a mirror changes constantly and it is not the same in the morning as at night time. We won´t even bother to speak about the transformations suffered by the personal image through out the years. But as to mirror technology itself, a reflection at present time, a photo or digital image is already part of the past when we can see it. Light takes its time to rebound in the mirror, to be digitally processed or projected, this puts in evidence the impossibility to trap the present. A sand glass timer shows us the same kind of fluid reality. Superposition of those two mechanisms produces a strong representation of this impossibility to maintain a still image. The spectators suffer the same transformations all the time but this way they get aware of it.

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