10 billion years, this is the estimated lifespan of our sun: arriving today halfway through its cycle, it will eventually turn into a red giant within 5.5 billion years and will consume a large part of our system.
10 billion years, it is a dizzying duration. However, it constitutes a circumscribed temporal framework. But what are we talking about? The universal and quantifiable one by measuring instruments? Or that quantum, linked to the experience that the observer makes of it?
The new Mah exhibition explores this plural notion and more precisely raises the question of the time of clocks with regard to the time of artists. Geneva is both a watchmaking city and the CERN's host city. Also the MAH, which has one of the most important clock collections in the world, wanted to explore the links between measurable and quantum times, between linear and contextual fields. And who else to better formalize a quantum time than the artists? They alone can transpose us beyond this fixed frame of 10 billion years, in an artistic time, certainly anchored on the race of the face of our clocks, but capable of constantly creating new paths.