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