‘Boxes of Time’ is a sculptural work documenting places visited by the artist in recent years by drawing on a photographic archive. The work consists of five transparent acrylic boxes, each containing 52 photographs captured by compressing time into periods ranging from two minutes to a year. The images offer a variety of perspectives on how time can be experienced and perceived.
Having worked across genres including both short and feature-length film, installation, and performance, Weerasethakul once remarked in relation to one of his own feature films that “how the audience is affected by time in a film, and what emotions it evokes, is important.” Works of cinema, a medium that emerged in the nineteenth century, have fascinated audiences not only as recordings of reality but also through the experience of watching images move. Boxes of Time makes for a profound exploration of time in the context of moving images.