"7 minutes 13 seconds"

video projection (7:13 min) on pigmentbased inkjet print, laminated on aluminum

Time is always in flux; this can be experienced in movements and as a succession of changes. In photography, time can only be depicted in stillness, as a snapshot. In 7 minutes 13 seconds, Liddy Scheffknecht takes up the challenge of representing time as a process in the photographic image and, in a special way, puts photography into the cinematic realm. As a basis she uses a photograph appropriated by an anonymous photographer, which shows the motif of a photographer with his camera. The latter has enlarged it and placed it in a new media context by overlaying it with an animation of shadows made for this photograph, which are projected onto the image by the photographer and - changing in outline - slowly move over it. This shadow movement suggests the perception of passing time. In reality, however, it is an autonomous shadow that has no logical relationship to the photographer depicted. This simulation not only explores new ways of representing temporal processes in the photographic image, but also addresses problems of perception. This approach also applies to the photo series Oculus, which is based on an installation. For this, an ellipse was cut out of a window covered with white paper and a lamp was placed in front of it in the interior. As a result of the sunlight entering, the ellipse was radiated onto the floor at different times of the day in different places and in varying shapes. Only at a certain time of day was the status achieved that a round circle of light formed directly under the lamp, creating the illusion that the lamp had now been switched on.
(Petra Noll, 2013)