Art and Time - Darren Almond

Tide, 2008

The theme of time is present throughout the majority of Darren Almond's recent work.  Eleanor Heartney suggests that advancements in technology  have given us 'a sense that we can control the flow of time'. I think that Darren Almond in his installation Tide,  2008, is attempting to take away this false sense of control. In this work approximately 600 clocks are mounted on the wall, all of them synchronized,  sounding in unison every minute. You can imagine the click, the noise enveloping the viewer as it echoes around the space, reinforcing the inevitable nature of time itself.