Potentially the highlight of the Wrong Way Time exhibition (more details about the exhibition here) was the section devoted to the physical manifestation of calculating the hours, minutes and seconds, in Wrong Way Clocks.
The clocks have a specific meaning and function within our culture, yet all of them have been altered. By adding text and images in paint, the artist adds to our understanding of what a clock is and what it does. Fiona Hall's clocks become more than just a means to tell the time; they have been transformed into a warning.
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The cheerful cuckoo clock becomes a desperate plea to wake up and look at the world in which we live, its always-expected chimes a reminder that time is precious and finite.
Each of the floor and wall clocks is painted in a different way, but many of them are characterised by skeletons; messages and graffiti cover other pieces. The message is not entirely an omen of death, but memorial totems and protests signs urge people to change their habits and lifestyles.
A clock face mounted on a tower of charred books indicates that we can learn form the past to arrest the extinction of the future. Time may be running out, but the Doomsday Clock hasn't yet reached Zero Hour and we may still be able to do something about that.
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