Tezos

Moment of Significance (Single Frame)

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Description

Moment of Significance (2026) 1920x1080 H.264/AAC MP4 15 seconds, 25 fps Photography in Urgench, Uzbekistan (March 2026) Photogrammetry in Agisoft Metashape Modelled and rendered in Blender Soundtrack sample by kyles via Freesound (CC0) --- Created for the You Got Here Just In Time exhibition during the second Objkt Labs Residency, Moment of Significance forces us to consider the fragile boundary between immediate presence and the intrusion of recollection. Comprising thirty unsequenced video works, the series manifests a private moment with forms originally encountered and photogrammetry scanned in Urgench, Uzbekistan. Crucially, the work does not treat these objects as exotic artefacts extracted from their context, nor does it act as an elegy mourning their physical decay. Instead, it asks what purpose such objects serve now as they elicit memories deeply ingrained in us as we experience the moment. Recognisable as forms built for play and imagination, which points towards universal human impulses, the sculptures are transformed through the intense attention of noticing, scanning, and reconstructing. Through this process, they shed their status as mere remnants and are activated with an entirely new meaning far beyond their original utility, becoming the essential material for this work. The environment operates through a quiet instability, presenting a scene that is simultaneously somewhat faithful to an actual physical encounter and entirely fabricated. By placing real-world surfaces into a constructed digital space, the work mirrors the mechanism of human memory itself: an architecture that feels intensely real yet alters the scale and structure of whatever it preserves. The spatial impossibilities embedded within the scene act as echoes, suggesting that the act of remembering is actively interfering with the present moment. A shared continuity across the thirty fragments implies that ordinary life moves on indifferently at the edges, whilst the subtle handheld motion of the static camera places us firmly within this unstable reality. The accumulation of these incompatible accounts deliberately negates any possibility of a linear narrative, and refuses to produce a single objective source of truth. Instead, the work interrogates what it means to arrive at a specific point within a personal continuum, carrying the accumulated weight of past associations, looking at a world where the same moment can mean everything to one observer and nothing to another.