The work is exhibited in the Warehouse C
 
According to the experimental neurology, three seconds is the necessary time for the human brain to ‘scan’ a scene from the outer environment and the modifications that might occur. The artist Alexander Schellow is investigating this particular field through the creation of drawings and videos which focus on these concepts. In his statement he explains that “in this time frame the notions of past and present doesn’t exist” […] I am interested in the question of how this sample of conception involves the recreation of the present and therefore an active process of the brain.”
After returning from his long walks in the city, a process which is evident as a main subject in his work, he draws using tiny points whatever he has seen around him, allowing in this way the concept of memory to interweave with the concept of conception. In sequence, he creates real landscapes which on the paper as also on the screen, they appear as imaginary landscapes, while the image emerges from “the movement that reminds us a pendulum between the possibility of memory and the concept of reality”.
Alexander Schellow’s videos last three seconds. There is a break of three blank seconds and then the video repeats itself, therefore “the three second duration gives the impression to the viewer that he hasn’t seen anything and the image withdraws before anyone can comprehend it.”

Theodore Markoglou

The extracts comes from the conversation between Alexander Schellow and Jean –Baptiste Joly in a common project of the Mertz Academy and Solitude Academy, in 2007.