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Drawing on examples such as José Saramago and artworks associated with Giorgio Preca and Ryan Falzon, it argues that mundane objects carry “aura,” preserve instants of history, and reframe time as non-linear. The text examines how object-subjects generate new narratives, enabling viewers to connect present perception with lived past events through dialogue among moments.","Remains that See  \nThe irony of historiography lies in its very essence and being. It attempts to provide a story of humanity, a story of the living by uncovering, discovering, and interpreting objects. All that remains of people’s lives and the events they were part of are the objects: tools, kitchenware, decorative artefacts, books, letters, bones. All that remains as testament to the human are objects. Human legacy and life are laid bare and sedimented in the objects that remain as witnesses to the life stories that they were part of.  \nJosé Saramago uses objects as the centre stage for his short stories in The Lives of Things (1978) . Mundane objects are the protagonists of events that have far-reaching consequences. In ‘The Chair’, we have a detailed description and presentation of a mahogany chair that marks the end of a dictatorship. The chair from which António de Oliveira Salazar fell would forever alter Portugal’s political history. A chair witnesses the cataclysm of a regime change; a chair embodies the beginning of a new historical cycle.  \nThis fact provides a new dimension of how we should read and interpret still life paintings. These paintings do not portray inanimate objects or subjects but offer a glimpse into a fixed point of history or life. Still life, thus, becomes a snapshot that directly links viewers to an event, a zeitgeist, or life itself.  \nThe works of Giorgio Preca (1909–1984) and Ryan Falzon (b. 1988) depict this state of being and recreating this dimension of our shared reality. Preca and Falzon offer a glimpse into the profundity of life, not by portraying scenes of life or human subjects, but through their engagement with objects. Their still lives are testimonials to the lives and times that they inhabit. The objects in the paintings are not inanimate but thriving with the energy and spirit of the events and stories that they bear witness to. The objects are the protagonists of their zeitgeist; they are film stills of an unfolding reality.  \nThis characteristic discloses the discordance between the terms‘still life’ and ‘natura morta’. Although synonyms, the English term focuses on the notion of life, a still of life, a depiction of a living moment. However, the Italian term is paradoxical because, unlike a memento mori, the naturamorta is full of life and élan vital, as depicted in Caravaggio’s works.  \nIn contraposition to the notion of death, the artist succeeds in giving life to inanimate or dying objects and granting them eternal life. In this sense, ‘still life’comes to be redefined as always alive or still alive for eternity, like an occult or kabbalistic ritual in which inanimate objects are given life. Like in the story of the golem, the still life artist grants life to their subjects by transforming them into works of art but, more crucially, by succeeding in the extraction of a specific moment in time.  \nWalter Benjamin’s aura of the work of art becomes more layered and further etched into the artwork. The aura is not merely about the presence of the work itself in a specific time and space, but, more essentially, an aura is inscribed onto the subject itself. The depicted objects exude the aura of being a snapshot of a particular moment in time. The painting is an etched instant, an inflection point, full of life and energy, captured and rendered eternally alive—a still life. This aura is the living testimony of a time and place that the viewer did not live in but is now peering into. The observer is made complicit and transformed into a fortune teller peering into a crystal ball; the depths of the past are used to uncover the abyss of the present.  \nThis exhibition creates a forum, a plenary, in which not paintings, but moments in time are brought into discussion with each other. The impossibility of time travel is erased, and like an experiment in quantum mechanics, the linearity of time is distorted to bring together different eras, events, and historical moments. 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