In her film work from the 1970s, visual artist Dóra Maurer intensively explored concepts surrounding repetition and the measurability of displacement and movement. The concept of Timing (1973-1980) is deceptively simple. “Time is measured by folding a piece of white linen in front of a black background. I fold it seven times in total, starting over each time and making an extra fold. The dimensions of the cloth correspond to the image format of a 16mm film; the width being the distance between my two outstretched arms,” stated Maurer. With its variations and gradual irregularities in the divisions of the image — or rather, divisions of the projection screen — time, or the measurement of time, undergoes a transposition into the spatial. The idea of absolute measurability is subtly undermined.
