Collecting Time (2023)
Collecting Time is a vitrine installation that aims to reorientate our collective responsibility for rhythm, perception of time and progress by activating our collective awareness for a slower but more stable pace as a form of care.
In a world where confidence in progress is a must, the speed of this progress is often regarded as the measure of success. Time became twice as precious and slowness is often perceived as counterproductive. While the rhythm of the city often jumps back and forth between fast and slow; open or closed; in motion or paused (which requires endless resilience that determines the life and well-being of its citizens), the cycle of nature embodies a much slower and steadier pace.
The snail - one of nature’s many performers to embody this slow but steady pace - stands central in this vitrine installation and can as well be found across the urban landscape of Brussels, faithful to the animal's invasive nature.
Installation view SB34, Brussels (2023), vitrine installation, 50 x 40 image printed in dibond, cadre américain, snail shells, two neon lights, blue paint, metal