Reminder

Interactive Sculpture
Marble and stainless steel, 180 x 43 x22 cm

Reminder is a human-scale clock tower made of marble, with a pair of scissor blades in place of clock hands. Visitors are invited to synchronize the clock with their own watch by rotating the blades, guided by instructions placed alongside the sculpture.

Because the blades are separated by a small gap, the scissors do not cut. This points to the contradictory sense of time as both divided and continuous.

Each interaction revives the dead clock and monumentalizes a specific present moment, making the clock a witness to the collective accumulation of these moments.

Clock Tower is a one-minute video that functions as an extension of the Reminder installation. It presents footage from a fixed camera that recorded the clock continuously over the seven days of the exhibition, day and night.

In the video, the clock stands on the rooftop of the exhibition space, with its shifting shadow marking the passage of time.

The video captures moments when visitors interact with the clock, briefly bringing it to life, as well as periods when it remains still.

Part of Vertical Collisions art exhibition
STATION, Jisr el Wati, Beirut, Lebanon (May 2015)
Part of the VIIIes Jeux de la Francophonie
Abidjan, Ivory Coast (July 2017)