Phase 1: We, humans are species very finely attuned to our physical environment 2024 Tables, images, memoribilia, sound and video Dimensions variable Commissioned by Beirut Art Center
The future is thought of as having a past and a present; it only exists in a form of linearity. The future is conscious and does not belong to the unconscious. Visiting the past is an attempt to integrate the past into the present. The unconscious, on the other hand, has no linearity; time does not exist. What has been experienced in the past continues to resonate in the present in various forms. As I reimagine my work tables, each of which has carried a past, a present, and a future in my conscious mind. I reimagine feelings, thoughts and projections. Sitting on each table, working, writing, drawing, talking on the phone or only looking at the window was defining a time. I had 7 tables, 7 lamps, sometimes the same following me from a place to another. It reminds me of a belief that said that the cat reincarnated six times as an animal, and the seventh time, it reincarnated as a human. (Maybe the final destination of the future is finally being human.)