AUGUSTO
GERARDI

The sun position has been one of the units for the measurement of time until the seventeenth century. The working hours were calculated regarding the sun position and its transit through the sky.

 

This paradigm changed with the industrial revolution, the society had to be effective and use a schedule which was imposed by a mechanical clock, likewise, the art spaces began to imitate the behaviour of the factories, the schedules began to regulate the moments of access to art. In the end, the mechanical clock overpowered the images.

 

Didi Huberman proposes that the images are diachronic and that being in front of them means to be facing time. The access to these diachronic temporalities is regulated by another magnitude of time, which contemplates the amount of time that it is allowed to access an image.