Art

Jeff Wall in conversation with Martin Schwander

S: Do you think about timelessness in your artistic work?

W: Yes, in the context of the tableau. Because that form exists in order to create a certain unity. And that unity by nature seems to extract itself from the flow of time.

It's been said that the "unity of time and place" abstracts the entity in

Everything is movement transformation. A profile is never motionless but is constantly varying. Objects in movement multiply themselves, become deformed in pursuing each other, like hurried vibrations. For instance a runaway horse has not four legs but twenty and their movement is triangular. In art all is conventional nothing is absolute.

That

I believe that much photography is a reflection,

however unconscious, of man's impermanence,

of our constant flirtation with mortality.

-James Carrol, the lives of others