they too must have been living out of their memory of the sun is a time-based installation where light passes through a window and moves across a room. A sun rises according to Havana time (UTC-5), synchronized with the Cuban sky.
This artificial sun evokes a distant memory, casting shadows on the plastic flowers that once adorned the house where I grew up. They were silent witnesses of another time, each petal like an archive, absorbing the light of its place and retaining it in its flower-form. All flowers wither in their own time.
Now, separated by distance and its irreversible forces, they live on memory at the center of universal time. The shadows caressing the wall, like the minute hands of a clock, form a mechanism that works as an inverted colonial clock: instead of imposing global time, it restores it. Moving slowly, almost imperceptibly, it sets each evening into the cracks of history.
In collaboration with Dans Jirgensons and Joonas Lumpeinen.
