photos: © Roberto Ruiz . + The Blueproject Foundation
Sound goes through the speakers creating a spatial, pulsating movement. We can hear familiar sounds such as heartbeats (from the artist herself) and the ticking of clocks, orchestrated in accordance to our temporal experience. Although each minute contains 60 beats, it feels different from the others, and the combination of all the minutes results in a sequence that spans over the course of a whole day, that is, 24 hours.
The installation immerses the viewer into the experience of space and time, the ebbs and flows of the speed and slowness with which it passes, and does so in a deep, emotional manner. The concepts of time and circularity become particularly relevant in Kwade’s work, of which clocks and sound are a constant. To the artist, a clock is testimony to the human desire to measure and divide time as a means to control and shape reality.
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