Name: Wax Clock Altar (2022)
Brand: Panorammma
Price: 3650.0 GBP
Availability: OutOfStock

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Founded by Maika Palazuelos in Mexico City, PANORAMMMA operates at the porous boundary between art, design and narrative construction, creating objects that challenge the conventions of everyday life through material experimentation and speculative storytelling. Conceived as an extension of Palazuelos’ artistic practice, the studio explores themes of alienation, abstraction and the expanding pathology of the concrete, drawing on past visions of the future and constructing what it describes as myths of memory through new visual narratives. Rejecting the idea of design as autonomous sculpture or static museum object, PANORAMMMA creates works that are activated through use and intimacy: sat on, touched, switched on, lived with. Through this exchange, objects become participants in shaping behaviour and perception. Often conceived as “pseudo props”, these pieces open fissures through which fantasy spills into reality, transforming domestic space into a scenography of parallel fictions and proposing new possibilities for how we inhabit the world.

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Panorammma’s designers built the Wax Clock Altar to challenge how modern humans perceive time. The modern, clinical tracking of time (watches, timetables, seconds) is represented by the sterile, rigid stainless steel frame. The fluid, subjective concept of time popularized by philosopher Henri Bergson—time as it is actually felt through experience—is represented by the fluidly melting wax, which is suddenly fractured by the cold, pragmatic countdown of the falling nails. This variation of the Wax Clock scales the exact same functional concept up into a massive, highly theatrical exhibition piece. Because of its sheer size, it feels less like a functional piece of home decor and more like an imposing, industrial religious altar or a gallery installation. When the nails fall from this height, the resonance and echo of the sound are magnified.

Panorammma’s designers built the Wax Clock Altar to challenge how modern humans perceive time. The modern, clinical tracking of time (watches, timetables, seconds) is represented by the sterile, rigid stainless steel frame. The fluid, subjective concept of time popularized by philosopher Henri Bergson—time as it is actually felt through experience—is represented by the fluidly melting wax, which is suddenly fractured by the cold, pragmatic countdown of the falling nails.
This variation of the Wax Clock scales the exact same functional concept up into a massive, highly theatrical exhibition piece. Because of its sheer size, it feels less like a functional piece of home decor and more like an imposing, industrial religious altar or a gallery installation. When the nails fall from this height, the resonance and echo of the sound are magnified.