Time Balls was my response to a new ritual: commuting between Zurich and Brussels every two weeks, due to the condition of relocating given by Adapt-r fellowship. I decided to take this act as a conscious ritual of performative making (silent and invisible) during every moment of commuting between my place of residence (home) and the place of work, wherever both would each time be.

CARAS DÍA, CARAS NOCHE (MORNING FACES, EVENING FACES)

RITUAL
Since 2014 - ongoing

INSTALLATION
Helmhaus Zurich, 2020
2B_Space to be, Madrid, 2019

Thermopaper, ticket printer, tripod

750 x 250 x 50 cm

“Morning and evening look each other in the face, about 2000 times. Sleepy and awake, tired and refreshed. Instead of looking in the mirror, Alicia Velázquez has been looking into the camera every morning and every evening for seven years and taking a self-portrait. In doing so, she is her own object. Which simultaneously alienates her from herself and brings her closer to herself. 4000 different faces - and always the same person. The moment the photo is taken, the face moves into the past. A moment later, the identity is already another. The artist calls this "a graveyard of moments". And: "a prison". But also: a proof of being alive, a celebration of presence.”
Text excerpt from the exhibition catalogue by Simon Maurer (translated from German).