ShanghART Gallery 香格纳画廊
中文

8-Hour Countdown
XIANG LIQING 向利庆
2011
LED Dot Matrix Displayer, bell
30(H)*30cm 6 pieces
XLQU101

A day (24 hours) can be divided into 3 sets of 8 hours, which could measure our daily life, work, entertainment and sleeping time in normal. The setting time of "Countdown" timer is 8 hours, counting down the time within last 8 hours, from hours, minutes, seconds to 1/10 seconds progressively. The fast beating figures directly make viewers feel the passage of time. Moreover, it declared that the life time we experienced has become the past when the installation rang.

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