Broken Time | Michal Rovner

Michal Rovner, Israeli, born 1957
Broken Time, 2009

Ancient stone with video projection
On extended loan from the artist

Floor -2, The Russell Berrie Entrance Hall

 

The work Broken Time resembles an antique sundial on which time has left its mark, and which functions in the steady eternal rhythm of day and year. The lines of figures that move on the round stone look like letters. They leap in an effort to reach greater heights, but the weight of reality drags them down into the crevice that cuts across the stone and threatens its integrity. It is a rupture created perhaps by the figures themselves, evoking other ruptures and rifts in the past and the present...

Photo: Gil Bozaglo, Wikipedia

Photo: Gil Bozaglo, Wikipedia