Tania Candiani

This project was carried out between 2008 – 2012 and is divided into two stages. The first, an installation of 1000 alarm clocks, whose seconds sound in unison, documented in two single-channel videos showing the clocks installed in La Salada desert in Baja California, Mexico and the Giza desert in Cairo, Egypt, where the passage of time is perceived in the growth of the shadows of the alarm clocks in the sand. The second, an installation of 300 clocks on a wall, where time sounds like the fall of the rain, as opposed to the time stopped and crystallized in the records of the installations in the deserts of Mexico and Egypt.

Newton speaks of absolute, true and mathematical time, which by its very nature, flows in the same way without anything external. In the new physics, time is something intrinsically flexible and its experience is strongly connected with the observer.

Sobre el tiempo (About time) is related to these two conceptions of time and to individual experiences. It refers to the almost organic pulse, a physiological pulse, a rite of passage. In this way, time emerges as a torn fabric that can continuously be woven or turned into threads. The route that connects displacement with nostalgia.