William Kentridge, The Refusal of Time, 2012

𝑾𝒊𝒍𝒍𝒊𝒂𝒎 𝑲𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒓𝒊𝒅𝒈𝒆: 𝑰𝒏 𝑷𝒓𝒂𝒊𝒔𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝑺𝒉𝒂𝒅𝒐𝒘𝒔 is on view at The Broad through April 9, 2023. Get tickets: thebroad.la/3VN2NNY
📣 Five videos, four megaphones, and breathing machine comprise William Kentridge’s installation, 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑹𝒆𝒇𝒖𝒔𝒂𝒍 𝒐𝒇 𝑻𝒊𝒎𝒆.
The film is projected on five screens around a large sculpture-based on an effort in 19th century France to use compressed air to sync clocks through a series of connected tubes-called the “elephant,” inflating and deflating like a human lung, mapping time on the individual level.
A collaboration with physicist Peter Galison and @williamkentridgestudio, this installation explores moments in the run-up to Albert Einstein’s Theory of Relativity, which proved that time is relational rather than a constant.
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William Kentridge, The Refusal of Time, 2012. Five-channel video installation with sound; four steel megaphones; breathing machine © William Kentridge.