Alicja Kwade
Schwere Elemente

2014

EB83

Alarm clock (height: 11 cm), lead cast, wall board (80 x 20 x 2 cm)

Edition of 8 + 2 AP, signed and numbered

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Edition by the artist Alicja Kwade. An analog, red alarm clock stands on a white wall board. Next to it is a cast of the alarm clock in lead.
Edition by the artist Alicja Kwade. An analog, red alarm clock stands on a white wall board. Next to it is a cast of the alarm clock in lead.

    A round analog alarm clock and a lead cast of it are placed on a wall shelf. While the alarm clock ticks tirelessly, reminding us of the supposed passage of time, the cast lacks a dial and hands – a “lead shadow” of time. As in many of Kwade’s works, philosophical and scientific considerations collide, questions of space, time, and gravity are treated as central concerns of sculpture, and conventional notions of reality are called into question. Schwere Elemente (Heavy elements) symbolically relates two natural forces to each other: time and gravity. The image of “lead time,” which goes back to Friedrich Hölderlin, manifests itself in the pairing of readymade and sculpture.
    Text: Eva Scharrer