The object references world clocks that adorn waiting rooms, airports, government buildings and travel agencies, while also perhaps displaying the disconcerting appearance of an improvised explosive device. The electronic components are set to a 24-hour clock or "military time" marking a forward chronology that marks time towards an infinitely protracted (yet cyclical) horizon.
We are interested in the affects such an apparently mechanical and non-expressive work might evoke.
While static, the object is intended to point beyond its time and place, not to a transcendent.
Other nor to any intrinsically expressive content, but to the extrinsic and material conditions of an ongoing war.
Hardly a memorial, it can perhaps function as a sign for those whose lives are affected precisely insofar as they are
unaffected by the war. Thus the clock marks the affect of proximity at a remove.
Exhbibited at:
En cada instante, ruptura, Sala de Arte Público Siqueiros, Mexico City, Mexico, 2010