The anxiety of our era surrounds the notion of space, not time, which functions as a distributive operative demarcating distance on a spatial plane. The transformation of time, as it accelerates, and space, as it dissipates, has become intrinsic to our experience of life as it becomes increasingly technologically mediated and in tune with the “real time” imposed by the digital mediascape. Deterritorialization paired with detemporalisation yields a hyperlocalisation, a fragmented and timeless spatial void wherein everything and nothing is happening simultaneously. Space is remapped through the flattening of geography, giving rise to a new epiphytic reciprocity between time and locality.
Abandoning the structural time continuum within which reality resigns through collapsing spacio-temporalities, this series builds on the notion of hyperlocalisation, deriving its name from the physics term Verschränkung, or Quantum entanglement. Violating the local realism view of causality, Verschränkung accounts for when the spatial proximity of particles renders their quantum state indistinguishable from one another. In a similar vein, this series presents multiple histories and narratives within a singular frame or iteration.
The imagery juxtaposes, collide and disrupts logical relationships between occurrences through its convergence of geographically estranged events, conflating the collective experience into a unified expression. Series aims to question whether the concepts of deterritorialization and detemporalisation enable us to understand the uses of space and time in a new context that is characterized by acceleration and fragmentation. This relativistic conception of reality is void of a human dimension, it replaces historical time: the domain of history, geography, and physical space.
