How to Circle Forward in Time?
Artwork 2: How to Circle Forward in Time? This moving-image work captures a methodology — a way of re-entering history through loops of projection, rupture, and renewal. Using Berlin’s Tempelhof Airport as its locus, the sequence unfolds as a recursive, fractal system of memory — endlessly remixable, infinitely expanding.The film begins with the city in its totality, then draws us deeper: through shifting epochs, collapsing centuries into seconds, and finally into the intimate scale of archaeological debris scattered over time. Archival photographs, AI-generated reconstructions, and image-to-model interpolations bleed into each other, producing unstable thresholds between past, present, and speculative future. This is not a chronology but a conditional chain of image-triggered realities — one path leading to memories of oppression, another to visions of collective refuge. In collapsing linear time, the work reframes the city as a crystalline structure of temporal layers: a media construct where history is never fixed, but perpetually reconfigured. Through this, the project enacts a circling forward in time—a process where history is not revisited in linear return but re-entered as a loop of projection, rupture, and renewal.
Artist
Valeriia Chemerisova
MEDIUM
Artwork 2: How to Circle Forward in Time? Composed from AI reconstructions, image-to-model interpolations, and 3D models, the video layers archives, maps, and testimonies. Stable Diffusion animates these fragments, collapsing eras so Berlin’s past and future fold into each other, reopening history through speculative, cinematic visions.
Year
2025
dimensions
5176 x 11999 Pixels