Does time follow a logic? In the kinetic film sculpture A Shark Well Governed, 35 mm film loops wrap around a light cube: an endlessly spinning and non-linear evolving thought, projected onto a three-dimensional screen. Words, based on the book: An Experiment with Time (1927) by the writer, aeronautical engineer, and philosopher John William Dunne, are getting lost around the corner.
A Shark Well Governed, 2017
35mm film, handwritten with ink, light box, motors Images: Installation view at Pirelli Hangar Bicocca, Milan, Italy, 2017. Photo: Agostino Osio © Rosa Barba
A Shark Well Governed, 2017 has been on display at the following locations:
Calouste Gulbenkian Museum, Lisbon, 2026
MAXXI, Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo, Rome, 2025–2026
Esther Schipper, Berlin, 2022
Luhring Augustine, New York, 2021
Pirelli HangarBicocca, 2017