What if a historical event or a personal memory shared the same rotational symmetry as a circle? The impossibility of memory’s objectivity has occupied Khadivi in the making of As Time Was. The recurring circular motion alludes to circular time and infinity. The rotating glass disc evokes a machine, a saw blade, or a film reel. For a long time, home video cameras stitched together disparate events onto a single tape, creating an unbroken narrative. This seemingly fixed yet in fact random truth is the starting point of the work. The disc’s shape recurs in the glass on the wall, which Khadivi regards as the installation’s atlas and anchor point.
Material: Rotating light from the ceiling, relief in glass mounted on the wall, rotating glass and metal sculpture on black podium
