Jere Suontausta: Moment

Moment is a sculptural installation composed of found objects and a tiny incandescent light, in which momentariness has been compressed into both the narrowest and the broadest form of interpretation.  

In the work, the light represents the smallest conceivable temporal unit, that is, a moment. When thinking 'now,' it has long since passed. The world and the entire entirety are composed of an infinite and infinitely dense chain of moments – but none of those can be grasped as such. A moment is both the largest and smallest unit, and its significance expands equally toward the limits of finitude - in the artwork, as far as the light reaches.   

Allegorically: All reality and existence comprehensible to the human mind is still a mere grain of sand in the (temporal) scale of the universe. We struggle with the meaningfulness and meaninglessness of our existence, trying to understand and control everything that surrounds us - even though we are that unattainable 'now' amid vast darkness.