Color Clocks: Verticals Lean Occasionally Consistently Away from Viewpoints consists of three objects arranged in the space whose designs are reminiscent of the operation of a clock’s gear mechanism. Within their open housings, red, yellow and blue 35mm film strips slide through a mechanic sets of rollers in a continuous loop. The film strips are each imprinted with individual letters, spelling the three colors they represent, and suggest a form of text, albeit one which appears to have become obsolete in the space-time continuum. Each of the objects moves its color at its own specific rhythm so that together a kinetic image is produced. As a re-collection of timekeeping and the experience of time itself, Color Clocks plays with different modes of perception: a meditation on color, time, perception and language, repeated to infinity.

 

Color Clocks: Verticals Lean Occasionally Consistently Away from Viewpoints, 2012

35mm film, motors, aluminum, plexiglass

83.5 x 122.5 x 15.5 cm incl base


Images: Installation view at Albertinum Dresden, 2015. Photo: Berndt Borchart © Rosa Barba


Color Clocks: Verticals Lean Occasionally Consistently Away from Viewpoints, 2012 has been on display at the following locations:

Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, 2024

OFFSCREEN, Paris, 2023

Centre Pompidou, 2023

cccod, Tours, 2022

Neu Nationalgalerie, Berlin, 2021

Esther Schipper, 2021

Kunsthalle Bremen, 2018

FIAC, Paris, 2017

Lund Konsthall, 2017

Albertinum Dresden, 2015

MIT List , 2015

Charim, Wien, 2015

Hong Kong Art Centre, 2015

PAC, Milano, 2014

CAC, Vilnius, 2014

MAXXI, Rome, 2014

vistamare pescara, 2014

TANAS, Berlin, 2013

Turner Contemporary, 2013

Bergen Kunsthall, 2013

Gio Marconi, Milan 2013

Iskele2, Berlin, 2013

Museo di Storia Naturale di Venezia, 2013

Kunsthaus Zürich, 2012

Miami Art Fair, 2012

Fiac, Paris. 2012