The Web of Time unfolds from the artist’s father’s passing and expands into an inquiry into how ancestry, belief, and identity are constructed and sustained.

Moving between personal memory, family archives, genetic research, spiritual narratives, and political history, the work examines how ideas of origin are produced and stabilised across generations. It reveals how both families and societies rely on selective narratives to manage uncertainty and maintain coherence.

The work includes footage of a bonobo, often described as one of the species most closely related to humans. Its presence complicates inherited notions of purity, distinction, and origin. Human ancestry is no longer treated as a symbolic abstraction, but as a biological continuity across species.

The African Grey parrot appears not as a metaphor but as another perceptual presence within the work’s field. Positioned alongside evolutionary science, ancestral belief systems, and historical discourse, it further unsettles the assumption that knowledge is structured from a singular human standpoint.

Time in the work does not unfold linearly. Personal loss, evolutionary proximity, and political history exist within the same temporal frame. Rather than assigning species symbolic roles, the work positions them within an uneven yet shared structure of memory and inheritance.