To Greenwich in extraordinary times, (just ahead of the London-wide lock down), to catch this amazingly huge, colourful, installation by Tokyo based, French artist/architect Emmanuelle Moureaux, and it is truly wonderful. Slices of Time is a chromatic cumulus, a numerical nimbus, a spectacular spectral binary billow, currently installed at NOW Gallery. The artwork takes its inspiration from both the concept of time and the site of the nearby Greenwich Meridian. Slices of Time consists of 168,000 cut paper numbers in a variety of colourful hues representing the full rainbow spectrum, hung in 120 sliced layers. There is a further separated section of white numbers which represents the past from 2000 to 2019, while the more colourful section alludes to the next 100 years in the future, and the space dividing the two sections represents the present, here and now. The textures created by the vast mass of numbers is a sight to behold, as is the nuanced gradation of the strong colours running the gamut of the whole spectrum along the piece. This installation really lifted my spirits in light of and despite of the unprecedented circumstances we find ourselves in. Stay well. Stay safe!
Slices of Time
until 19th April
NOW Gallery
Peninsula Square
Greenwich
London
SE10
(Please note that viewing hours for this exhibition have ended in light of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic).
