SOCIAL TIME

“It’s not that we have little time, but more that we waste a good deal of it.”
(Lucio Anneo Seneca)

The “SOCIAL TIME” work is an Hourglass composed of tiny electronic components numerous manually chopped smartphones. The work is accompanied by a video of just a few seconds that sees, as the protagonist, a smartphone ready to be blended in a food processor. However, the opposition of technology to being destroyed appears evident to us when the container in which it is inserted breaks, thus facilitating the escape of the same device. It was necessary to spend several hours reducing dozens of telephones into tiny pieces that fill the space of the hourglass. Today there is a lot of talk about “managing,” “governing” and “simplifying” complexity, especially concerning new technologies that allow the sharing and use of an unprecedented amount of data and information, perhaps in real-time, that also concern relationships of human beings, for example, through social networks.

This project, intended to demonstrate that the destruction process could be reduced to a rapid action, simplifying it through the blender, instead ends up implying that the same technology requires us to use our time and create and use even to destroy it.

There is nothing to do: we are condemned to use technology, which is gradually transforming itself to the point of becoming invisible to our eyes while remaining, in reality, omnipresent next to us.

Sculpture detail (25 x 10 x 10 cm)

Sculpture detail (25 x 10 x 10 cm)

Sculpture (25 x 10 x 10 cm)