10 billion years is the estimated life span of our sun: having almost reached the halfway point of its cycle, it will, 5.5 billion years from now, turn into a red giant and consume a large
part of our solar system.

10 billion years is a vertiginous duration. It nonetheless constitutes a well-defined timeframe. But what kind of time are we talking about? The universal time, quantifiable by measuring instruments? Or the quantum time, tied to the experience of the observer?

The MAH’s new exhibition explores this plural notion of time. Or more precisely here: the time of clocks versus the time of artists. Geneva is a city of clocks and watches par excellence and also, with CERN, the center for the exploration of quantum universes. It was only natural that the MAH, which hosts one of the most important clock collections in the world, would present an exhibition that builds bridges between quantifiable and quantum time, between linear and contextual fields. And who better to formalize quantum time than artists? Only they can transpose us beyond this fixed framework of 10 billion years, in an artistic time anchored by the course of clock-hands, yet permanently able create new paths.