Sarah Eick zeigt Fotografien in der artrelations Galerie. Eröffnung von 8 SECONDS während der Art Week Berlin.

In the organizer's words:

Sarah Eick 8 SECONDS

The exhibition "8 seconds" by Berlin photographer Sarah Eick (*1974) provides an insight into the artist's past, special moments, which she has been recording in a calendar diary for twenty years. She photographed these moments - mainly memories from various trips to the USA - for eight seconds. The result is fascinating, flickering photographs, moments of blurriness, of imperfection in a world full of perfection.

"In '8 seconds', I explore the question of the now. What is the now? How long does the now last? Is everything present? In a world full of AI and perfection, I have a need for something imperfect, a longing for blurriness and movement."

The long exposure of eight seconds creates a dynamic that allows the viewer's gaze to sink into the depths. The images seem like a fragment of a memory that breaks up again in the present. Sarah Eick brings the past into the present, into the present of the gallery. The artist shares her own fulfilled time with us. She demands eight seconds of mental presence.

The idea that the present lasts about 8 seconds comes from the work of neuroscientist Ernst Pöppel. Pöppel is a German psychologist and neuroscientist who conducted research into human perception and the perception of time in the 1970s. Pöppel proposed that our consciousness perceives the "now" in time windows of around two to three seconds, but that these moments can be linked together to create a subjective experience of the present of around eight seconds. This time span refers to the idea that our brain is able to integrate information over a period of about eight seconds and perceive it as a coherent unit of the present.

I cordially invite you to the vernissage on September 12 from 6 to 9 pm. Visit the artrelations gallery on the occasion of Berlin Art Week!

Opening hours for Art Week 12 - 15.09.:

12.09. Vernissage: 6 - 9 p.m. / 13.09. - 15.09.: 12 - 6 p.m.