Prise du temps, 2025
Carriage wheel, motor, variator, gears, weightlifting weights, transparent case.
- Roue | Wheel —
- 18.4 ×
- Ø 130 × cm
- Boîte | Box —
- 70 ×
- 50 ×
- 30 × cm
- Socle | Base —
- 1.8 ×
- 70 ×
- 80 × cm
- Poids | Weights —
- 3.7 ×
- Ø 36 × cm
- each
- 135 ×
- 130 ×
- 80 × cm
Taking the time is a clock. Made from a carriage wheel, it tells the time with only relative precision, turning once every 12 hours.
The artwork is an invitation to take time, in every sense of the word: to slow down while contemplating the slowness of the movement, to take control of the time (a small push of the hand on the wheel is enough to shift the clock), to lay siege to the time symbolically in order to question our relationship to duration (Bergson), to the acceleration characteristic of our digital Western societies and to the resulting loss of meaning.
Exhibitions
Ode to Joy, Bastille Design Center - Paris, 2025↓
Detail of the central axis of the wheel.
Courtesy of the artist
Detail of a gear, engraved with the title of the work and the signature.
Courtesy of the artist
Exhibition view | Ode to Joy, Bastille Design Center - Paris.
30 mai — 1er juin 2025
Exhibition view | Ode to Joy, Bastille Design Center - Paris.
30 mai — 1er juin 2025
