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Omschrijving werk

Sara Rajaei: "Time is my main subject: deconstructing and reconstructing time by narrating, whether it’s about a past incident, a moment of present or an idea of the future. I am interested in the magic: one can make magic of a simple everyday life situation just by recalling it, forgetting and remembering it, adding to it his/her own imagination, ambition, and secret… and so creating a whole new story, given no beginning and no end. Time is unknown, it’s the secret, secret is magic, magic grasps. Time, is what we share with one another. In a filmic work we face different divisions of ‘time’. Time as the duration of a film and time which exists in one story. No matter how many films I have watched until now, it still fascinates me that the story of one’s life can be told during the 90 minutes of one film. In my work I look for ways of playing with these two divisions, search for different solutions of telling a story through visuals. And therefore my works even though sharing an atmosphere with one another completely differ from each other. My works are neither films nor videos, because I both like the aesthetics of film and the free achievement of video. I like the floating magic of poetry, the strong ties of storytelling, the touchable texture of a piece of craft and music. In my work I try to combine all these. Writing is an essential part of my work. My writings focus on specific moments, emotions and details, simply what might not seem to be very important. I often use a traveling camera in order to see and to show as much as I can, without putting an accent on a specific subject. This way every object is viewed in its details and at the same time with enough distance. It remains as secretive as it can be. What is most important for me in creating a work of art is to create a moment that would make the beholder stand still, in order to relate and reflect."