A curation by Flavio Scaloni, Gallery Manager at Galerie Lo Scalo - The clock is a compelling motif, embodying universal concerns: mortality, memory, and the ephemeral nature of existence. It functions as a modern memento mori and represents the psychological experience of time's anxiety or fluidity. In art history, Salvador Dalí defined the theme with his Surrealist masterpiece, The Persistence of Memory (1931). Its "melting" clocks, which he called the "Camembert of time," symbolize the relativity of time and its decay, suggesting it loses its rigid meaning in the subconscious. A hard pocket watch covered in ants contrasts this, symbolizing decay. Post-1950, multimedia artist Christian Marclay created the monumental video installation, The Clock (2010), a 24-hour cinematic compilation that forces a real-time, minute-by-minute confrontation with time itself. World-famous photographer Richard Prince appropriated the watch motif in works like Untitled (hand with cigarette and watch) (1980), where the sleek wristwatch, isolated from advertising, becomes a detached symbol of status and modern vanity.