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modernTimes, sign of a time
2017
LAb[au], Manuel Abendroth, Jérôme Decock, Els Vermang
Size: variable
Technique: analogue clock, digital clock
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The juxtaposition of the iconic shapes of clocks reveals their symbolic value as signs of time.
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When in 1340 Jacombo Dondi gave the clock it's form, he shaped more than a visualisation of time: he created an image of the world. With its circular and cyclic finitude, it represents the universe as a mechanism and establishes one of the strongest icons of the Renaissance world. In 1970, the digital clock replaces the watch hand and its dial with a linear display. By placing the analogue and the digital clock next to each other, the artwork ‘Modern Times’ creates a tautology of the notion of time with their corresponding circular and linear world view.
TransCoding: daily functional object to icons of time, it's time
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2017 ___ TIME, Socièté, Brussels
2018 ___ TIME, Bastide Projets, Marseille
2019 ___ IF THEN ELSE, Casino Luxembourg, Luxembourg City
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artwork by the Belgian art-studio LAb[au] dealing with the transcoding of signs, symboles, codes from one media into another
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