Time Together is a contemporary art project about tattooing by Julim Rosa. Developed in 2017, while Julim was a resident at ZK/U in Berlin.
I worked on the logo, communication pieces, and poster.
In Julim's words:
Years of working in the tattooing industry made me ask myself this simple question:
How long should it take to do something that will last forever?
I realized that there was huge incoherence in the way we approach the “making” of something that will stay on the body for a lifetime.
I couldn’t get this question out of my mind, so I decided to explore this tension and do something with it.
TIME TOGETHER aims to explore a new process of creation in which the person that gets the tattoo is not just seen as a “client”, but is considered an active collaborator and subject of the project.
It starts with the premise that the process of making a tattoo should be driven by inspiration, and should respect the time needed to make it happen. The opposite of a mechanical process.
This project proposes a collaborative practice between the subject and the artist, which demands time, presence and experience to develop a deep human interaction that ends in a tattoo.
How long should it take to do something that will last forever?
I realized that there was huge incoherence in the way we approach the “making” of something that will stay on the body for a lifetime.
I couldn’t get this question out of my mind, so I decided to explore this tension and do something with it.
TIME TOGETHER aims to explore a new process of creation in which the person that gets the tattoo is not just seen as a “client”, but is considered an active collaborator and subject of the project.
It starts with the premise that the process of making a tattoo should be driven by inspiration, and should respect the time needed to make it happen. The opposite of a mechanical process.
This project proposes a collaborative practice between the subject and the artist, which demands time, presence and experience to develop a deep human interaction that ends in a tattoo.
