Severina Seidl
Chronostasis depicts time standing still: butterflies resting for a moment, only to vanish in the blink of an eye.
In this fleeting instant, they pause long enough for viewers to admire their presence on scorched earth, their fragile wings adorned with water droplets.
The piece invites and challenges viewers to slow down and look closely—taking in the beauty of nature, the textures, the fleeting bliss of happiness, alongside the transience that often becomes clear only in hindsight.
Chronostasis brings together a multitude of processes: heating, hammering and polishing brass; ripping tights; cutting individual butterflies; stitching beads one by one; and applying resin drop by drop. Through this accumulation of quiet, repetitive labour, the artwork speaks of the human connection to memory and time. Beads and a crystal chain guide the eye from densely clustered butterflies at the bottom to more sparsely arranged forms above, emphasising the butterflies’ delicacy and fragility.
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