RESPIRAÇÃO
docu - performance
Algarve (PT), 2016
“TO SEE A WORLD IN A GRAIN OF SAND.”
— WILLIAM BLAKE
CONCEPT / PHOTOGRAPHY:
Jelena Pavlović
I am seated at the edge of land in Lagos, Portugal, facing the sea with my back.
No cues. No gesture.
For thirty minutes, action is reduced to its minimal condition: breath. Inhalation and release unfold within the slow rhythm of the sea - its vast, indifferent movement continuing beyond the body.
Documenting the performance, I treat breath as bound to a singular moment. The work does not attempt to preserve it - it allows the moment to disappear, leaving only a brief unfolding in time. Echoing Eivind Røssak, the image emerges as a suspended fragment within a larger temporal flow.
Nothing unfolds as an event.
The image remains mute — it simply holds time.



