The different ways of dealing with time play an important role in the exhibition. At MARGS, while some artists invite us to an attentive observation of motors, traces, and animations that move in a slow dance before our eyes, other researches focus on a certain hyper-acceleration, imagined futuristically since the 1980s but reaching another level today with artificial intelligence, the many surveillances that surround us, and excessive screen time.

One vibration does not cancel the other. Coexisting and creating tension, the works in this Estalo remind us of the individual and, at the same time, collective aspect of a simple grain of sand crawling at the bottom of an hourglass. Tiny, it is part of a whole. Without its presence, we lack the movement that suggests the passage of time. Similarly, the artists gathered here reflect on time through small actions and suggest a relationship with it that is elastic, fictional, and sometimes slightly melancholic.