Beautiful past awaits us

Grasping the concept of transience or time has been a basic theme in art; hence it is no surprise that Proust also tried to search for lost time. However, many people try impossible: capture ephemeral. In any case, fundamental art, although its representability always questionable. As Jauss (1952/1996) writes, “time special relationship with narrative art” (p. 5). notion inherently difficult define. St. Augustine’s saying goes—which now become catchphrase—“What then time? If one asks me, I know; if want explain questioner, do not know” (Augustine, 2006, p. 242). According Henri Bergson (1889) central question metaphysics. this puzzle were solved, everything would be solved. Time perceived only transience. Borges wrote substance am made of” (1956–1960/1964, 234). The static nature visual art—prevalent until videos and video installations emerged—makes particularly problematic show phenomenon can great challenge art how depict elusiveness. eternal we same yet different. What remains memory. Memories are partly individual, largely memories constitute us. Thus, topic my paper representation time, more precisely passing contemporary possible attitudes artists stop past, since remembering rewriting reinterpretation past.