Pickled!

Time surrounds us, shaping every moment, yet remains elusive and hard to pin down. Pickled! explores this intangible element of our lives. It focuses on the moments we overlook, the pauses between actions, the gaps between events, and the hours that slip by unnoticed. These fragments, if seen as currency, would be akin to loose change forgotten behind a sofa.

The exhibition draws inspiration from the leap day—a once-every-four-years anomaly that reflects time’s imperfect structure. This extra day, both critical and inconsequential, challenges the way we think about time. Like a ghost on the calendar, it exists outside the usual flow, a reminder of how malleable time can be.

Pickled! blends the feel of a nuclear bunker with the intimacy of a time capsule, creating a space that feels both suspended and dynamic. Visitors encounter environments that echo paradoxes, such as Schrödinger’s thought experiment, where conflicting truths coexist. Clocks in the space tick at varying speeds, dreams preserve fleeting moments, and distinctions between past, present, and future blur. Time becomes less of a straight line and more of an intricate web—a fluid experience shaped by perception. How does it feel to inhabit a moment that is both fleeting and significant? What can we learn from the way time stretches or compresses in our memories and dreams?

Pickled! offers a setting where time behaves in unconventional ways, urging us to rethink our relationship with it. It is not about reclaiming time that has passed but celebrating its peculiarities and contradictions. The show invites us to notice the unnoticed and find value in the transient.