One day in ten seconds (on relativity of time)
2015

Beyond the ideas related to the physical Earth spaces and its projections in maps, time is also a vector to be put in perspective. How could it be possible to relativize the duration of cycles, the length of days and nights?

A day in ten seconds (on the relativity of time) is an apparatus that simulates a day’s length within a few seconds. It is a low-tech apparatus that leaves its structure visible, showing its mode of operation. The photograph of the Earth was appropriated from an outdated Atlas of the World.

Photograph, rotating structure, motor and light

95 x 65 x 75 cm

 

Exhibition Nós entre os extremos – arte e ciência, at Instituto Tomie Ohtake (São Paulo, Brazil), 2015-16