IMAGINARY
CLOCKS
“Time is an illusion...
There exists, therefore.
For the individual, an I-time,
or subjective time. This in
itself is not measurable.”
Albert Einstein
What if our time doesn’t exist?
About Time is an immersive, interactive audiovisual installation that explores imaginary time (“i”) as a poetic, subjective, and plastic dimension of space-time. Drawing from quantum physics, cosmology, cognitive neuroscience, and research on meditation and flow states, the work approaches time not as a linear progression, but as a malleable, relational experience shaped by attention, presence, and collective interaction.
Conceived as a labyrinthine journey, it unfolds through portals and states of fragmentation, dilation, connection, and stillness, where measurable time intersects with fluctuating awareness. Immersive projections, spatialized sound, motion-tracking, and subtle temporal disruptions, transform visitors from observers into active participants who enact time through their presence.
As participants move through the space, their gestures generate temporal fields that intersect, interfere, and synchronize. Time shifts from a private interior phenomenon toward a shared, dynamic ecology.
In a world structured by minutes, routine and urgency, we invite audiences to experience another temporality: a fluid inner time shaped by attention, imagination, and states of consciousness, and proposes a poetic gesture of resistance: an invitation to reinhabit time collectively.
Created by Laia Cabrera & Isabelle Duverger
Original Music by Nana Simopoulos
Interactive Design by Jianhao Ma in Collaboration with Aniol Saurina Masó
Time is the indefinite continued progress of existence and events that occur in an apparently irreversible succession from the past, through the present, into the future.
