Timekeepers

Three channel video installation with sound; [performance]

2024

Pudding desserts, Lego bricks, childhood landscapes. The more I dive into the understanding of memory and identity, the more my research takes me toward triggers: signifiers, artifacts and spaces. I feel myself falling into the background, becoming a spectator to the sequences of scenes they unravel in front of me. Without them, I have no anchor points; without them, I have no time. They are, indeed, keeping it for me.

In the project Timekeepers, I am turning the focus of memory from a subject to objects and spaces. They remember the traces of my actions, they are the protagonists of my story. I have been researching personal artifacts and archives and how they relate to my memories and history. With the audio-video work Timekeepers, I am taking a further step back, becoming a prop to the landscapes of my youth. I am returning to my childhood spaces in Slovenia to archive their voices.

The performative action re-enacts my interaction with these landscapes, but this time I’m only listening. We witness the backstage of a scene, a non-body capturing their portraits.

Timekeepers video work:

Direction, sound and edit: Urša Prek

Drone camera: David Zagajšek Wetter