On a regular grid, 1,944 small motors rotate an equal number of metal discs. All receive the same current, but slight differences between their prepared wires produce individual speeds and friction patterns. An apparently shared surface emerges from these discrepancies: reflections, rhythms and minute variations form a field with no conductor. Zimoun makes the gap between a system’s order and material behaviour perceptible.
Location: Warehouse Jaeger-LeCoultre, Geneva, Switzerland, 2020. Commissioned by Jaeger-LeCoultre and produced with Tetro. The video and photograph are archival documents of this presentation; the film was published on October 26, 2020. An artist post dated September 17, 2026 shows this installation again.
Artist: Swiss artist Zimoun is based in Bern. He builds spatial installations from industrial or everyday materials, simple mechanisms and physically generated sound.
Sources: Zimoun’s original 2020 documentation; artist post, September 17, 2026; biography.