NO TIME FOR TIME

No Time for Time

**A Life, a Carreer, a Day**, 2017, Photography on aluminium, quadriptych, series of 3, 55 x 160cm

Since the invention of the e-mail and the mobile phone, our relationship to time and natural rhythms has fundamentally changed. Nothing is too fast to improve our productivity. We have become reachable anywhere at any time; news reaches us in the second and commands immediate reactions. Time is money. We have become slaves to the communication tools supposed to serve us, in a hurry to respond and intolerant of waiting.

In many areas, such as architecture or design, time and use should no longer leave their mark on smooth, minimalist materials. Even art has become an industry subject to the logic of speed and scale for its production and commercialization.

This work of the artist re-enacts the natural clocks of life. In 2008, at the height of minimalism in architecture, he built an ultra-contemporary house where he wanted time to leave its mark and its patina. He chose materials that changed in appearance over the years, such as industrial wood panels on the walls. Nine years later, he took down some of these panels where paintings had been hung. Their shadows were photographically imprinted in the wood, leaving an indelible memory of slow times: the light of day, the patina of the wood, the life of the tree.