An Arrangement for an Architect and a Darkroom Timer stages two participants
standing face to face for sixty minutes
within the liquid red light of an industrial facility.
As the distance between the bodies gradually contracts and expands,
the work translates the act of looking into a study of duration and proximity.
The large-scale projection is paired with a darkroom timer
and cables placed on the gallery floor.
Set to sixty minutes,
the timer repeats the duration of the video in real time
before sounding an alarm that continues until reset by a viewer.
Functioning as the work's soundtrack,
the timer marks the audience in actual space, redistributing attention in real time.
The overlapping cycles of the video and timer trace a figure-eight structure:
two loops crossing through one another without
a shared origin or endpoint.
An extension cable allows the timer to be repositioned throughout the gallery,
widening the work's diagram beyond the projected image and reconfiguring its temporal structure.
Viewers may choose to let the timer continue indefinitely,
while the participants remain absorbed in the encounter, unaffected by the sound.
