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1000 Waters for Tempo Giusto show

media installation with video and digital prints // April-June 2025
Littman Gallery in Portland, Oregon // curated by Simeen Anjum

1000 Waters installation view
Julie Perini (photo by Marne Lucas)
1000 Waters installation view
Created for an exhibition about “time and slow looking,” these two site-specific artworks derive from the 1000 Waters video series. The 1000 Waters Monument...  piece uses a selection of shots of hot springs, pools, and other bodies of water. The 1000 Water Wall of Joy... piece uses just a few seconds of a Minute Movie from 2012, video of my friends splashing in the Pacific Ocean, creating a large “river of time” along the wall.  I think of these two-dimensional photographic works as a kind of extreme slow motion, so slow in fact, that the motion has stopped. Viewers can take in every tiny change in the frames over time: every water droplet as it careens through air to the beach, every light beam as it moves over a hand submerged in a hot spring pool. I also included all 1000 Waters videos looping on two monitors.
1000 Waters Wall of Joy, remembering Sarah and Liz frolicking in the Pacific Ocean in 2012, in San Diego, when we visited Arzu when she was pregnant with Milo, and it was all very moving and beautiful.
2025, video stills and digital prints
284” x 80”
1000 Waters Wall of Joy... detail
1000 Waters Wall of Joy...(documentation video)
1000 Waters Wall of Joy... detail
1000 Waters Monument to oceans, rivers, fountains, hot springs, reservoirs, channels, lakes, rain, pools, waterfalls, trickles from pipes and also a Monument to looking & being & feeling mesmerized, fascinated, and enchanted and also a Monument to swimming & soaking & drinking & connecting with friends, my parents, light beams, my hands, a few sturgeon, and a duck.
2025, video stills and digital prints
24.5” x 100” x 49.25”
1000 Waters Monument... installation detail
1000 Waters Monument... and 1000 Waters Wall of Joy... installation at the opening reception, April 30, 2025. Pictured here: Naomi Nguyen, Gallery Director of Littman & White. Photo by Diego Garibay.
1000 Waters Monument... (documentation video)
 Exhibitions
Tempo Giusto , curated by Simeen Anjum, Littman & White Galleries, Portland, Oregon, April - June  2025
Julie Perini is a filmmaker and artist in Portland, Oregon.