The changes of the universe that we can observe in daily life are either extremely slow or placed between long periods of immobility. We may not notice them since the time that separates us exceeds that of several generations, that of the collective memory, even that of the very existence of humanity. To understand the transformation of an impassable time for us (an obscure time or dark time) the observer would have to expand his field of vision and extend it to a period of time longer than that which separates two great successive changes. Or we could look the other way.

We may understand ‘dark time’ as the absence of light, of sunlight: the night. Beyond day and night sequences, during a total eclipse, there is a missing time. Two successive changes are manifested as the passage from day to night and from night to day independently of the Earth’s rotation. A time that can be experienced as compressed hours in couple of minutes, or as an absence of what we have skipped from a diurnal cycle. Then, time suddenly is expanded again to our regular continuance of the sequence of time. Moving space expands time, moving time compress space.

The video installation results from the editing of the experimental footage of an eclipse, where time travels through the screen space. Time producing space.

duration: 00:06:00
astronomy advisor: Jesús González y González, PhD