An Arrangement for an Architect and a Darkroom Timer
stages two participants
standing face to face for 60 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 60 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.
