Luis Camnitzer: Water Clock for Uncertain Times

Luis CamnitzerWater Clock for Uncertain Times, 2020Digital print24 x 18 inchesEdition of 50 Luis Camnitzer is an artist, educator, and theorist whose work explores the intersectionality of the aesthetic and the political. Since the 1960s, he has employed drawing, printmaking, photography, and installation to address ideologies of freedom, post-colonialism, and the exclusionary nature of the art world, pioneering a more socially engaged approach to conceptual art. For this poster, Camnitzer references the water clock, an ancient device used to measure time through the flow of water from one container to another, combined with a non-functioning minute and hour hands made from simple wooden sticks. The ineffectual timepiece ultimately alludes to this current moment of global uncertainty, when even the most basic social and technological advancements of the last 5,000 years seem to be failing us. Luis Camnitzer was born in 1937 in Luebeck, Germany. He studied at the Escuela Nacional de Bel