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Marie De BruynThe National Glassmuseum

Offline Timer - One Century

Sizes vary from 15 till 30 cm, glass and smartphone wastage, recycled acrylate

To prevent glass from bursting spontaneously, it must be cooled down very gradually during production. For her Offline Timers, Nuyten intervened in this delicate cooling process. The result: ticking time bombs of glass that will, after a certain period, shatter of their own accord.

To celebrate the release of her monograph and the biggest timer going off, Nuyten developed a new generation of Offline Timers: this time, glass spheres with chromic and colored finishes that start their countdown with the first publication of her practice. These new timers are designed to go off within a century; they may outlive both the artist and their future owners. Coated in chrome and smartphone waste, the spheres function as conceptual clocks - measuring time not in minutes, but through tension, reflection, and eventual fracture.