Name: Wax Clock (2022)
Brand: Panorammma
Price: 2730.0 GBP
Availability: OutOfStock

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Founded by Maika Palazuelos in Mexico City, PANORAMMMA operates at the porous boundary between art, design and narrative construction, creating objects that challenge the conventions of everyday life through material experimentation and speculative storytelling. Conceived as an extension of Palazuelos’ artistic practice, the studio explores themes of alienation, abstraction and the expanding pathology of the concrete, drawing on past visions of the future and constructing what it describes as myths of memory through new visual narratives. Rejecting the idea of design as autonomous sculpture or static museum object, PANORAMMMA creates works that are activated through use and intimacy: sat on, touched, switched on, lived with. Through this exchange, objects become participants in shaping behaviour and perception. Often conceived as “pseudo props”, these pieces open fissures through which fantasy spills into reality, transforming domestic space into a scenography of parallel fictions and proposing new possibilities for how we inhabit the world.

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A candle holder rendered in stainless steel is mounted onto the wall as an altar panel painting that folds closed to simulate a medical cabinet. The candle supported by the metal structure is pierced by nails at different heights marking time intervals in a contemporary rendition of the ancient candle alarm clock. Deliberately syncretic, the object references themes of ancient ritual and religious practices while addressing modernist values of asepsis. As the candle shortens the melting wax releases the nails onto the cabinet’s metal plate which drop with loud “clings”. This moment marks a sudden fractionalization of an otherwise fluid condition of time. A suspension of a state of temporal leisure into that of pragmatic count; palpably evidencing differences between Henry Bergson’s concepts of “objective time”; the time of watches, timetables, and calendars, with that of “duration” (la durée); lived time, time felt and acted measured by subjective experience.

<p>A candle holder rendered in stainless steel is mounted onto the wall as an altar panel painting that folds closed to simulate a medical cabinet.</p>
<p>The candle supported by the metal structure is pierced by nails at different heights marking time intervals in a contemporary rendition of the ancient candle alarm clock. Deliberately syncretic, the object references themes of ancient ritual and religious practices while addressing modernist values of asepsis. As the candle shortens the melting wax releases the nails onto the cabinet’s metal plate which drop with loud “clings”. This moment marks a sudden fractionalization of an otherwise fluid condition of time. A suspension of a state of temporal leisure into that of pragmatic count; palpably evidencing differences between Henry Bergson’s concepts of “objective time”; the time of watches, timetables, and calendars, with that of “duration” (la durée); lived time, time felt and acted measured by subjective experience.</p>