David Claerbout’s projection Shadow Play (2005) showed the doors of a large corporate building. Periodically people would come up and try the doors but they were locked so no one ever managed to gain access to the building.
The artist used the building as a representation of a modern, brightly lit future but this diminished as people were unable to access it.
The impossibility of being able to access the building was a metaphor for video and photography which acts as a time machine which transports us back to a particular time but ultimately we are unable to access.
It made me think about memories or fragments of memories which are like photographs stills. We can see and feel them but we cannot go back to that time, as we were then, we can only relive them or remember them in this time as we are now?
