El Tiempo is a project in collaboration with the cultural volunteers of the Reina Sofia Museum, a group of pensioners that play an active role in the museum's Department of Education. Through the creation of a collaborative experimental film, El Tiempo examines the intangible, explores personal and collective memories, and delves into various artworks from the Collection. The project started with the idea of making a film set in a dystopian present, where the Museum is empty and closed to the public as a result of the collapse of modern society. Western culture has, therefore, lost its hegemonic role, causing the abandonment of the institutions that sustained it. In this context, the volunteers appear to be the only people who inhabit the Museum. The framework of this fictional thread allowed the development of group and individual performative actions, experiences of deep attention and a series of encounters between bodies, space and artworks. This work was shot just before the pandemic and the editing and post-production process took place during the confinement. This experience deeply redefined the project and those images that were created in the Museum's empty rooms as fiction, as a vision of an imagined present, began to represent a plausible reality.
—Claudia Claremi