FILIP ROCA

TIME

INFO / CREDITS
YEAR: 2022 FORMAT: Projection Mapping DURATION: 7 minutes LOCATION: Cathédrale Saint-Jean-Baptiste COMMISSION: Fête des Lumières Lyon
ARTWORK: Filip Roca SOUNDSCAPE: Zarko Komar
CURATION: Romain Tamayo, Marion Traversi PRODUCTION: Animalux, Arnaud Doucet TECH SUPPORT: VLS, Novelty FOOTAGE: Virginie Nguema
DESCRIPTION

“Time is a moving image of eternity,” Plato observed, yet we still struggle to define it. The past stays stubbornly behind us, but our obsession with measuring it has never been more tactile. We retreat into idealized memory as insurance against an uncertain future, and only recognize the zeitgeist once it’s already gone. This work sits inside that tension—time as progress, as decay, and as the insistence that only the present is real.

Physics can confirm time’s existence, but not its purpose. In the mind, the border between inner reflection and the external world starts to blur, mixing reality with imagination. Time proposes a parallel sense of duration—felt less as a clock, more as a shift in perception. Spatial limits dissolve into a field of illuminated particles and electro-acoustic signals.

Through re-emerging fragments and morphing structures, the piece forms its own ecosystem, asking the viewer to navigate a terrain where time isn’t measured—it’s lived. Presented as site-specific versions in Lyon, Halle, Adelaide, and Innsbruck, the work adapts its temporal rhythm to each architectural skin.