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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
When curator Simeen Anjum invited me to contribute work to a group exhibition about “time and slow looking,” I was ecstatic. I knew that I wanted to expand my 1000 Waters video series into an installation. An initial site visit to the Littman Gallery in Portland, Oregon, inspired me to wrap one large moveable gallery wall entirely in video frames and to create a “river of time” out of video frames for the gallery walls.  I spent many hours watching videos in my collection of 1000 shots of water and decided on two sets of frames. The 1000 Waters Monument... uses a selection of shot of hot springs, pools, and other bodies of water and the other, 1000 Water Wall of Joy...uses just a few seconds of a Minute Movie from 2012, a beautiful video of my friends splashing in the Pacific Ocean. I created long titles for each work to communicate more of the process behind the work, a technique that recalls the titles of my graduate school thesis videos, the Experiments in Immediacy series. 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 slowly 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... installation view
1000 Waters Wall of Joy...(documentation video)
1000 Waters Wall of Joy... detail
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 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)
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”

 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.