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| On display | Zverev Center of Contemporary Art, Moscow, 27 Apr 2022 – 10 May 2022 |
| Artist and curator | Maiia-Sofiia Zhumatina |
Time is something that cannot be seen. We notice its presence, but no object we see is time. Clocks, decaying works of art, growing and aging living organisms tell us something about time and its “flow”, but we do not find time itself there.
Time, by its very nature, cannot be visualized: everything we can see is “subject” to time, or is “in time”. However, in some manifestations of our lives we can record special inner experiences that are essentially connected with time: the perception of the intervals of a metronome’s ticking, a memory evoked by an old object, a premonition of an approaching event and the inevitability of death.
The exhibition addresses the theme of the inner experience of time with the help of philosophical optics. The central project of the exhibition is the result of an experiment in using the “The Phenomenology of Internal Time-Consciousness” by Edmund Husserl, the father of phenomenology and one of the most important philosopher of the 20th century, as a practical guide for the artist’s exploration of her own consciousness of time. “The exclusion of objective time” means the elimination (in phenomenological theory — reduction) of time that can be measured independently of our consciousness, for example, by the mechanics of a chronometer. The objects, graphic compositions and audio installations created by the artist are an attempt to bring into external space the noticed, analyzed and creatively interpreted internal time structures and processes.
