2000 Video, 9‘40“

Forgetting (the vanishing point) is a long take of a cloud dissipating in real time. It lasts 9 minutes and 40 seconds.

The work references a demonstration by Brunelleschi in the 15^th century. Brunelleschi, while devising an apparatus for viewing his painting of an image of the baptistry in Florence, did not render the sky above the baptistry in paint, rather it was executed in silver leaf so that, acting as a mirror, it would capture the reflections of the real sky passing over the heads of the viewers staring into the optical box of his perspectival construction.

The specificity of cinema is its unfolding of the image in the real time that becomes the lived time of the work. In an intimation of the real, the cinematic image addresses the time of the in-between in which something is being actualized, the time it takes for something to happen.

“Time becomes a subject because it is the folding of the outside and, as such, forces every present into forgetting, but preserves the whole of the past within memory: forgetting is the impossibility of return, and memory is the necessity of renewal.”  Gilles Deleuze, Foucault.