Simplification

In watchmaking, the term « complication » is used to designate all the watch functions that are not to read the hours, minutes and seconds. They complexify the lecture of the passage of time by adding more and more information. Simplification is an installation that aims, on the contrary, to make us perceive time passing by making it physical. The disappearance or creation of something can be markers of time passing. They are at the origin of the space that Luna has been developing to represent the ineluctable passage of time and give it an indelible imprint. She has created samples of sea ice, like whole sections of the earth’s history. If ice captures time, the ice cores thus created represent a language to create an original reading of time. Simplification is at the intersecting line of a studio and a laboratory that is continually inhabited and in the process of being created. Through the traces and the sound of elapsed time, the devices capture the sensation of time flying, the one that a clock cannot represent. It tends to measure time as we feel it: when it goes very quickly or very slowly, when it flows regularly but also when it seems discontinuous and broken. Time passes and something remains of it.