LOST IN THE LIGHT | the FUTURE IS the PAST | simple TENSE mixed media installation CONCEPT LOST IN A LIGHT-BOX

We are used to be lost in the dark. The dark represents the subconscious, the death, the universe, the nothing, the danger and in general I think that the dark is something which is connected with the past, it is a memory that we all have, having been at least once in a dark room, shutters closed, the night, the underground, the bunker. The dark is an uncomfortable memory. But, it IS a memory.

We have not easily memories about what does it mean to be lost in the light. When we have light, we can see all around, we are aware, we can not be scared, well, not in the deapest way. Even in a dangerous situation, to watch the danger somehow can be codify, processed and solved.

BUT WHAT HAPPENS WHEN WE ARE OVERWHELMED BY THE LIGHT?

We can not see anymore. It would be an experience which project us to a new level. The first thing that comes to my mind when I think about this situation is the legendary “LIGHT TUNNEL” you would see before you die. A projection to the future, based on an idea formed in the past.

So, symbolically, in this installation, the LIGHT is another face of the unknown and the unknown is the possibility, the discovery, the new thing, it is a step further, it is the Future.

BUT WHAT IF WHEN WE GO THROUGH TH LIGHT WE MEET/TOUCH SOMETHING THAT WE CAN NOT RECOGNIZE AT THE FIRST MOMENT?

We get back to an unconfortable sensation first, then we start to touch it and we recognize something, a form, a matter, a consistence. We have to do it, we have to know. So we will give a name to the thing and, to give a name means that we already have/had the knowledge of what thet misterious thing is/was: the PAST. SO: the FUTURE IS the PAST.

simple TENSE: the PRESENT

Whenever we are talking about the future or the past we can not escape the PRESENT, which is, no matter what kind of philosophy we would embrace, the logic, real, obvious protagonist, always and anyway. The moment when we enter the room and we experience both (the future and the past), we are in the present moment and is only in the moment when we experience that we can be aware of the other two tenses. the past and the future exist only in function of the present. this is, for sure a political statement.

and more.... (to be continued and reviewed)

INSTALLATION PROJECT (sketch A)

• a room with two open doors one in front of the other (you can see the light from outside and be captured like an insect, hypnotized. Go to the light, follow a dream or a spell)
• the room should be between 6 and 30 mq
• the floor is softened with a layer of thik sponge (to give a sensation to be a little unbalanced)
• the walls are softened with the same material and in some point there will be objects, sculptures, forms
• led light system to create the sensation to be LOST in the LIGHT (sketch B)
• stereo sound system
• limited access to the space depending on the size

OBJECTS (work in progress) - a book - some abstract and geometric forms made with different materials - some other stuff but not too much

AUDIO: repetitive/hypnotic sounds taken from the real life and recorded by a sound artist (ORVAR)