An entangled time machine

An entangled time machine was developed in 2023 within the framework of the collaboration between La Science de l’Art — the art and science biennial organized by the Collectif pour la Culture en Essonne, and Grasping the Cosmos, the art and science program curated by Valeria D’Ambrosio and promoted by Villa Galileo, the Galileo Galilei Institute for Theoretical Physics and the University of Florence Museum System.

The project developed through research residencies in Paris and Florence. First presented at La Piscine d’en Face, Sainte Geneviève des Bois, in 2023, the installation later became the core of the solo exhibition of the same title at Villa Galileo, Florence, curated by Valeria D’Ambrosio.

Developed in dialogue with physicists Nicola Poli, Valentina Parigi, Riccardo Sapienza, and Caterina Foti, the project draws on experiments at the LENS laboratories in Florence and Kastler Brossel in Paris. Inspired in part by the Page and Wootters proposal that time may emerge from quantum correlations, it reflects on temporality through the encounter between scientific research, philosophy, and artistic practice.

At Villa Galileo, the installation was presented alongside works addressing labour, extractivism, feminist struggles, ecology, and cosmic temporalities, situating quantum experiments within a broader reflection on how temporal and political relations are produced.

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