Saâdane Afif
Monuments, 2009

109 x 17 x 17 cm
71 x 17 x 17 cm
89 x 17 x 17 cm
Metal, gilded with white gold.
Courtesy of Mehdi Chouakri, Berlin.

These three abstract figures recall a surrealist sculpture by Max Ernst. The motionless forms are actually the three hands of a clock, dismounted and stabilized on metal feet. Time is a central theme in Afif‘s work, conceptually connected with the work’s title Monuments: time is remembered. Afif disturbs the state of things by representing the inherently kinetic concept of time in a static way, and adorning the steel with white gold in the style of luxury watches. This sculpture belongs to a series of works surrounding the theme of time –for instance Blue Time (2004) with its ticking clock, and Hours (2004), in which 59 light bulbs illuminate in sequence to arrange darkness only at the 60th minute.

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