CHRONOVORES (2013-2016)
“Do
you really think the moon isn't there if you aren't looking at it?”-
Albert Einstein to Niels Bohr
Time
is man’s invention, that has turned against its creator. The
arranger has become the oppressor, we are prisoners of a system
brought to life by ourselves.
Wherever
man arrives, time unfolds. Does it also exist without our presence?
How do the remote locations live, when the course of time is not
recorded? We have no idea, because we walk with time.
Heikki
Leis catches time in places where it is not needed. Where life flows
on its own. The crusaders of the doctrine of time are armed with
clocks and watches to be planted in invaded spots like a victory
flag. His attempts of submission, however, become void after his
departure. All that is left is a frame, a fixed event, statement of
the moment. What time is now in those places? Is there any time at
all?In
a battle between culture and nature, man is waging a successful war,
but we’ll never be able to totally subdue our greatest enemy, the
uncontrollable wilderness. Leis steals for himself (and us) moments
that don’t belong to us. Not before, not after.
“Two
times a year we turn the clock, the rest of the time the clock turns
us”.
-
“Two Extra Hours”, Öökülm