“The Human Remains”
Alesh Macak
24 Feb → 17 Mar 2012

In the 13th century a ‘World Machine’ was used as an illustrative example of how the earth navigated through the universe. Alesh Macak is interested in momentary ‘truths’ like this. Where an idea for an age is taken as fact and then disproved to reveal a new fact. Time is speeding up and this scientific fact illustrates the absurdity of the importance we place on time in our day-to-day lives. Through a disconnection from nature and the universe we enable ourselves to direct and specify our lives through a very small scope. Instead of thinking and being expansive, we tend to shrink.

Nothing can remain stationary; everything moves, rotates, expands, pulses and breathes. This beckons the idea of infinity and the repercussions of infinity’s existence – an expanding universe, an infinite timescale.

Through a multi-screen video installation Alesh Macak will investigate these ideas of time, history, and physics using special effects and time-lapse photography.