Project Description

DAYS, I See what I Saw and what I will See explores the notion of producing a
continuous representation of space and a discontinuous representation of time – at
the same time. The film was shot over 11 days from 24th of February to 6th of March
2011 in the China Labour Camp in Sajaa, Sharjah.

The artist built 100 metres of tracks to make travelling shots. He installed the
tracks through the course of the day, and then filmed 100 metres in approximately
4 minutes. The next day, he dismantled the tracks, re-assembled them, moved
100 metres ahead, and filmed again. He did this for 11 consecutive days shooting
both during the day and at night. The incremental editing of the daily recordings
produced two singular plan séquences representing 1100 metres of space and 41
minutes of time.

DAYS will be screened only once in Sharjah, in the outskirts of the city, just after
the end of the Biennial. The two versions – a day version and a night version – will
be projected at the same time, on two sides of the same screen built specially for the
event.

During the official term of the Biennial, only two elements are displayed: an artist
statement in the form of a film poster hanging inside an exhibition room and
100 metres of tracks – the principle tool used for the film – located outside in the
Heritage Area of the city.

Co-produced by Sharjah Art Foundation, with support from Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris, and the artist

April 2011