A new exhibition entitled 'The Tyranny of Chronos' forms the backdrop for the official unveiling of Annie Leibovitz's portraits of King Felipe and Queen Letizia.
Unclocked Time
The third and last sections most clearly reflect the notion of linear time, which is so measurable and predictable that it underpins the logic of contemporary production. The works on display here demonstrate alternative ways of conceiving, experiencing, and representing time. This section draws on the language of art and non-western cultural contexts, such as indigenismo, which looks to another notion of time, linked more to natural cycles and indigenous knowledge.
With this notion of an alternative, reversible, non-linear time, the show also contains examples of artistic processes that champion alternative models of time associated with the 'slow movement' and others that directly challenge the prevailing idea that time is money and should not be 'wasted.' These artists take more liberating postures in their conception and experience of time and their discussion of how the consumer society regulates it. This transgressive and potentially emancipating dimension of non-colonial and poetic time is explored and championed in this third section by artists such as Antonio Pichillá,
