Curated by Julian Heynen and Stefanie Jansen
As a young trainspotter in Britain, Darren Almond became intimately acquainted with the world of clocks and timetables. Perhaps that’s how his obsession with time started. Involving slow-motion and real-time transmissions, many of his works elicit intensified experiences of temporality: the chronology of the body as well as time measured by clocks. In fact, Almond’s works make duration viscerally felt, by turns painful and soothing. The largest show of the artist’s work in Germany to date, this survey comprises some twenty films, photographs, and sculptures from the past eight years. Also included are Almond’s films made during recent trips to Antarctica and the Arctic, those axes of time and space.
