Biography
Time Compressions is the end result of a study on memory and its visual transcription in an information-saturated contemporary environment, while interrogating the relativity of data’s residue held in a still image taken out of its mobile original context.
*LLND exhibited the first Time Compressions in 2005 at the City of Science and Industry in Paris during the Month of Art and Technology. This work is the result of research on memory and is a visual metaphor of sensory information stored in our brain. The picture shows multiple reflections on a remembered event; Time Compressions shows the past, present, and future of an event’s reminiscence, just as the scent of a perfume affects our memory. Small colored geometrical artifacts that appear on the composition represent the five senses that feed our memory (smell, touch, hearing, taste, and sight).
Their solo show in Shanghai at Hong Merchant Gallery introduces the first Time Compressions Portraits. This unique technique unites multiple characteristic elements of a person’s life in one photo print. Past-present-future cohabit in one still image. To make a portrait we first ask the person a few questions about themselves, then we film various scenes of his/her daily life to create a Time Compression of those captured moments.
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