Atelier Van Lieshout

Back To The Future Clock

2019

Mixed Media
230 x 230 x 41 cm

Back to the Future Clock can show the time very accurately, down to a 100th of a second. However, it can also suddenly decided to make unpredictable movements. An especially for Atelier Van Lieshout developed computer programme makes the hands of the clock dance, move back and forth undecidedly or they droop down, laboriously push themselves past the numbers. Or they rush around, hours becoming seconds, minutes becoming a blur.
The work tries to redefine the concept and our understanding of time by taking away the certainty that time passes and the clock will keep on ticking.

Back To The Future Clock (2019) was part of the following exhibition(s):
‘BIG AND PLENTY‘, AVL Mundo, Rotterdam (NL), 2019
World Expo 2020, The Netherlands Pavilion, Dubai (UAE), 2020
World Expo Dubai 2021, The Netherlands Pavilion, Dubai (UAE), 2021

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Press here for a moving image of Back To The Future Clock.