A manipulated pendulum clock, with its dial removed and mounted on a wooden stand, Senza tempo ticked at regular intervals, accompanied by chimes at seemingly random moments. ‘Without numbers, hands, or a dial, the work reveals the mechanism of a pendulum clock, an image of relatively Absolute Time, beyond hourly measurements. Without specifying which before, after, or even where, its cadence attests to a before and an after. The pendulum mechanically rings some of its own hours, not synchronous with Earth time, highlighting therefore an existing, disjointed time, absorbed in the succession of its own rhythm, heedless of history. Like Being. This work has no axiomatic pretentions; it is awe.’1

1. F. Mauri, ‘Senza tempo’, unpublished text, 1995, Fabio Mauri Archive, Rome.