Time Paradox

Filmed in the work and exhibition spaces of the Museum für Naturkunde (MfN) in Berlin, Time Paradox tells the story of a brachiosaurus vertebra catalogued at the museum as MBR 19. Shot on 16mm and interspersed with 3D images where the fossils take shape and come to life, the film by the Korean artist weaves together reconstructed images, restoration data, and colonial-era archives into a paradoxical whole that recreates a world without witnesses, raising questions about how humanity records and preserves memory through technology. A female voice recounts the fossil’s story in Swahili: from prehistory to its excavation at Tendaguru, Tanzania, to its assembly into the skeleton of the imposing dinosaur now preserved as a museum specimen. It is a narrative about how museological practices undertake the task of recreating a world predating human existence—one of landscapes and extinct creatures never before seen.