The Hour of the Cat
2021
Installation created for the solo exhibition ‘Though, all the room be motionless’
V2Vingt, Brussels

The installation turns the body into a time measuring tool through a device inspired by the Chinese system of incense clocks. It produces impalpable yet cradling figures, a synesthetic encounter with the world. Invoking an anecdote about the ancient practice of reading time in the pupils of a cat, the work nurtures mystery and reveals a feeling of ubiquity. An embodied sense of time is proposed. The light changes with the experience of the visitor as the smoke disperses itself. 

Silk screened text on cotton fabric by Chromodrome 
Light installation realized by Quinten de Wilde and Pieter Verstraelen 
Encense realized from makko, cypress and thyme by Anaïs Chabeur 
Brass and steel shelves realized with Leander Schönweger

Credits : Laure Cottin Stefanelli