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Time (A), Kenji Nakahashi, c. 1985
Kenji NakahashiJapanese, 1947–2017

Time (A)

c. 1985 · Photograph

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Yes, receiving visitors

Minneapolis Institute of Art

Minneapolis, United States

RoomG315

On public display.

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The museum
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About the work

In this series, artist Kenji Nakahashi considers the fluid nature of time, defining it as a series of approximations or estimates made increasingly absurd by his efforts to measure it. Using scales, signs, and other comparative material to assert the “time” depicted on each clock, Nakahashi conveys the impossibility of capturing time, or even fixing a moment in memory.

Minneapolis Institute of Art

Particulars

Accession number
2018.127.20

In the catalog

PhotographsGelatin silver printContemporary art20th centuryUnited States

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