WAKO WORKS OF ART

9/26 11:00 - 18:00
9/27 11:00 - 18:00
9/28 Closed

Piramide Bldg. 3F, 6-6-9 Roppongi, Minato-ku, Tokyo

03-6447-1820

https://www.wako-art.jp/

Fiona Tan
Lost Time

2025.9.12 – 10.25
11:00-18:00
Closed on; Sun., Mon., and national holidays.

Wako Works of Art is pleased to present the world premiere of Lost Time, a new installation by Dutch artist Fiona Tan, opening on 12 September 2025.

Lost Time is an installation of seven glass panels suspended from the ceiling. On each panel, the dates of various locations—Rome, Amsterdam, London, Alaska, Tokyo, Moscow, Athens—are sandblasted, the time interval that was removed from the calendar there when was reformed.

Since its introduction by Julius Caesar, the Julian calendar was widely used in the West. Because it reckoned the year as 365.25 days—slightly longer than the Earth’s actual orbital period—it drifted by roughly three days every four centuries. Over several centuries this error became impossible to ignore, increasingly disrupting the timing of annual events and religious festivals.

Lost Time visualizes these gaps created around the world. Slight offsets and overlaps among the glass panels produce a subtle visual tremor, inviting reflection on the depth of these historical absences.