video installation

 

People tend to disregard the time they spend waiting, as if life stops for the time one is waiting. And when one is asked a simple question like - What have you been doing today? - one almost never points out the time spent waiting. The video as art that lasts in time looks to me like a good metaphor for life, and the pause button on the video player or the frozen picture on the screen as equivalent to the waiting.

 

The video is made out of only one frame cut from a classical film scene - a criminals on a stake out; a representation of inactivity while in the same time somewhere there something very dramatic, like a bank robbery, is taking place or we know it will happen soon. In the corner of the screen the word “pause” is overlaid on the picture. So, it looks like the video is paused in that moment, maybe in order to stop the developing of the serious crime, but in fact the video (life) is still running. Only the subtitles writing out several stories of real life waiting situations, like for example waiting in front of an embassy for a visa, are revealing that in fact the video is running. In the same time the subtitles deprive the picture from its latent, but still clearly suggested dramatics.