At the Time When 

2024
Artist book, Indigo digital press,
hand bound
225 × 300 mm, 52 pages each,
Volume I to Volume III

This work seeks to explore this juncture of measurable and conceptual time. Time serves here as the bridge between past and present. This conjunction is at the same time temporary and eternal, just as the essence of time itself–paradoxical. Museums, as a history and time keeper, essentially preserve time itself–revoking the spectre of the past, and retaining the present of the past for the future.

In the vast archive of the German Clock Museum (Deutsches Uhrenmuseum) in Furtwangen, a city located in the Black Forest, hundreds of timepieces stand silent. In the museum and its archives, the clocks all froze at different moments. For instance, one clock stopped at 8:10, another at 4:00.

This work responds to these specific times, using them as cues. During a trip in June, in the longest days of the year, I captured photographs and made observations at the exact times shown on the museum's clocks, creating a temporal link between the historical artifacts and our contemporary experience.

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