Clepsydras are time measuring instruments invented by the Egyptians around -1600 and then taken up by the Greeks during Antiquity who used these pierced bowls filled with water to control the duration of political speeches. When the liquid had drained, the floor passed to someone else.
This imprecise measuring instrument is no longer used today, however it seems to me to be a very beautiful definition of time, surely the closest: an object created by the hand of man which gives body to time, symbolized by the water. This water then pours to take a freer form, decided by forces that we do not see. The gravity, the wind, a step, the irregularity of space are invisible tensions which make it dissipate and transform it constantly. The exhibition space becomes a second recipient and the spectator, by stepping on the water, becomes an active participant in the transformation of the work. Clepsydras allow me to experiment with the different notions of time and to question its existence.
