VENICE BIENNALE 2018

The chronophotography techniques developed by Eadweard Muybridge and Étienne-Jules Marey presented humanity with a new perspective on time, movement, and change. When people looked at chronophotographs of a galloping horse, they discovered overlapping differentiated instants within the changing images. Conversely, by capturing images of seemingly unchanging subjects such as mountains or land at various moments in time—for instance, one day, one year, ten years, and one hundred years apart—and viewing them in rapid succession, we are likely to discover that these subjects are in fact moving like liquids. We may not even need to borrow the techniques of chronophotography to reach this realization.
Dōgen, the great thinker and religious teacher of 13th century Japan, wrote about the same phenomenon long before the invention of photography. For the Japanese, the observation that even a rocky and majestic mountain is a kind of liquid may not be such an unexpected insight.
The same is true regarding the fact that a house is but a temporary object. For that reason, it is important to look closely at the changes in these structures. Precisely because dwellings are temporary, it is my hope that viewers will draw close to the voids and pli, or “folds,” created in them by the environment, and, through the technology of timelapse photography, come to see them as places that draw attention to the changes brought about by the passage of time. These images reveal the virtualité of dwellings as spaces imbued with moment-by-moment changes. They are not eternal, but rather filled with infinite realities.

Purpose: 16TH VENICE BIENNALE INTERNATIONAL ARCHITECTURE EXHIBITION
Site: Palazzo Mora Venice Italy
Completion: 2018.5.26~11.25 /