Tempo

During the quarantines we all had to deal with the large amount of free time we had. And it was precisely on the word ‘time’ that I wanted to focus. Time relates to and intersects with the new normalcy we all experienced during the pandemic. The time I spent at home I found heavy and extremely repetitive. Every minute and hour I felt them on my body, reminding me that although the hours and minutes kept passing I could only remain still, stationary, in the company of my thoughts, of emptiness, hoping that this time would pass as quickly as possible. I visualised the word time in the form of an analogue clock, where every minute and every hour is observed, waiting for a turn of the clock to be completed. I adapted this concept of the passage of time into twelve books entitled ‘Time’, where the turning of the pages makes the passage from one minute to the next manual, pushing the minutes to the next and advancing in the rotation, leaving an imposing white space to represent the sense of emptiness I felt when observing the slowness of time that accompanied me throughout the lockdown.