REWIND OR PLAY

Installation in Space

Print on the wall, inkjet print

Rewind or Play reflects on time, memory, and the tension between repetition and exploration. At its center, a “Rewinder” device and a silent video screen that currently displays no images suggest that the past resists stillness.

Worn video tapes cascade downward from the screen, remnants of past events intertwined yet subtly in motion, as if the past itself refuses stasis. Beneath the cascading clusters, small mechanical devices – imperceptible forces – nudge the tapes in shifting directions, revealing the quiet persistence of histories that remain beyond our control.

In the background, a subtly audible soundscape of collaged, manipulated, and reversed recordings of public spaces permeates the space, probing transparency and media manipulation, revealing how clarity is obscured and voices are lost amid the quiet but pervasive influence of unseen forces. Above, a small ball hovers, tethered yet drifting, embodying the constant pull between freedom and constraint, potential and limitation.

The work explores how we inhabit time, how repetition mediates perception, and how the past quietly informs the present, even as we strive for movement, insight, and renewal.