Own project
Duration is a video performance exploring the relationship between the human body, nature, and time. Filmed inside the greenhouse of the M.M. Hryshko National Botanical Garden, the work unfolds as a dialogue between living bodies and an environment that exists beyond human temporality.
The performance follows a cycle of searching, harmony, disruption, transience, and continuity. Rather than telling a linear story, it observes how the body negotiates change, seeking balance while confronting the inevitability of time.
Two everyday objects become central metaphors throughout the work: a chair, representing the human need for grounding and belonging, and a ladder, symbolizing time — its verticality, continuity, and quiet persistence. Together, they create a physical landscape where movement becomes a form of reflection.
Duration invites the viewer to experience time not as something measured, but as something embodied.
Nature exists beyond urgency. Plants continue to grow regardless of human rhythms, preserving traces of time without resistance.
Within this living environment, the performers search for stability, lose it, rediscover it, and eventually learn to exist alongside change rather than against it.
The chair becomes an extension of the human body — a place of support, memory, and identity. The ladder represents time itself: something impossible to stop, yet possible to understand through movement.
As bodies pass through cycles of harmony and collapse, every gesture leaves a trace. Movement slowly transforms into memory, and memory becomes continuity.
Duration proposes that our place is not defined by space alone, but by our relationship with time. Only through accepting transience can we experience duration.
