Perfect Lovers

Perfect Lovers is an appropriation of Félix González-Torres work with an intervention, a redesign of the front side of two clocks into pie-charts. In Torres’s work two ready-made clocks inevitably go out of sync as time passes, illustrating a painfully simple allegory of love and partnership, while at the same time making a sharp critique of the heteronormative paradigm. In the case of Fokus Grupa the work approaches both the question of time and the idea of partnership, trough an economic lens. Here, the time is less a matter of meditation and more something to be measured, divided and instrumentalized. In an attempt to represent an ideal workday, which the 19th century proletarian desired; Eight hours labor, Eight hours recreation, Eight hours rest the required time has to span two clocks. Perfect Lovers fulfil the tasks of an effective worker. The function of their union is thus one of survival, essentially an economical one. The clocks/partners fulfil this function perfectly, but they are also, and this is an important difference with the Torres’s work, out of sync from the very beginning.

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technical info: altered ready-made, mass produced objects — 2 wall clocks / dimensions: variable / year 2014
exhibition view: A Taste for Work (opens in a new tab), ŠKUC Gallery, Ljubljana