Timing

Dóra Maurer / Hungary / 1980 / Czech Premiere / 10 min.

synopsis

An analysis of film time in which the folding of cloth allows for the folds in the passage of time to be explored. The perfect folding of a sheet or tablecloth requires years of practice. Maurer brings this “invisible” domestic work into the environment of black theatre. Only the occasional undulations of the fabric and the detailed documented variations in the timing of individual gestures reveal that behind the thousands of repeated, mechanized movements is the human body.

biography

Dóra Maurer (1937) is a Hungarian conceptual artist, curator and teacher. She has created paintings, photographs, films and installations. Her work offers playful artistic explorations into theories of perception, colour and the relationship between space and time. From 2019 to 2021, her work was presented in a major retrospective at Tate Modern, London.