Time is perhaps the biggest force governing our lives: every decision, every body, every conclusion. And yet it remains elusive, almost unreal, a concept that no one has ever held in their hands.
But some artists take on the challenge of representing it. In the 17th century, Philippe de Champagne depicted time through a still life of a skull placed next to an hourglass. In the era of Surrealism, Dalí melted a watch onto his canvases. Time in art can be an instant or, conversely, an eternity - something that spills beyond the frame and induces vertigo. It can be movement, displacement, the trail left by a body traversing space. It can be silence, stillness, time stretching out.

Between melancholy and acceptance, this collection reminds us that impermanence is not a loss. Clocks, looping works, hourglasses, aging, crumbling materials, time-lapse…. Digital technology allows us to compress years into a few seconds, to loop time endlessly, or, conversely, to freeze it in a moment that never fades. So many forms and ways of representing temporality when it becomes an artistic subject.