Uploaded March 2022 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
Started in 2020 by Rafael Lozano-Hemmer after having COVID-19 himself, this ongoing exhibition visualizes and memorializes the extraordinary loss caused by COVID-19.
During a time when distance and stillness halted public rituals of mourning, "A Crack in the Hourglass, An Ongoing COVID-19 Memorial" continues to provide a virtual and physical space to mourn loved ones lost to the pandemic.
In this participatory artwork, a modified robotic plotter deposits grains of hourglass sand onto a black surface to recreate the images of those lost due to COVID-19. After each portrait is completed, the surface tilts and the same sand is recycled into the next portrait, echoing the collective and ongoing nature of the pandemic.
Learn more:
brooklynmuseum.org/exhibitions/rafael_lozano_hemmer
acrackinthehourglass.net
Started in 2020 by Rafael Lozano-Hemmer after having COVID-19 himself, this ongoing exhibition visualizes and memorializes the extraordinary loss caused by COVID-19.
During a time when distance and stillness halted public rituals of mourning, "A Crack in the Hourglass, An Ongoing COVID-19 Memorial" continues to provide a virtual and physical space to mourn loved ones lost to the pandemic.
In this participatory artwork, a modified robotic plotter deposits grains of hourglass sand onto a black surface to recreate the images of those lost due to COVID-19. After each portrait is completed, the surface tilts and the same sand is recycled into the next portrait, echoing the collective and ongoing nature of the pandemic.
Learn more:
brooklynmuseum.org/exhibitions/rafael_lozano_hemmer
acrackinthehourglass.net
