Fucked Time

Fucked Time is a wall installation in which the second hand of a clock is replaced by a rubber phallus (dildo), making continuous circular movements in a clockwise direction. These clockworks express the absurdity and inevitability of the time our generation is forced to exist in. 

A generation raised in post-Soviet Eastern Europe grew up on promises of transformation in an atmosphere of imperial collapse, emerging democracy “opportunity ” and hope. We were told a new era was coming a time of freedom. But three decades later, for someone born in Ukraine and holding Russian citizenship, that time has turned into a period of disenfranchisement, violence, militarism, and the loss of any future. It is a Fucked Time. 

The phrase “May you be born or live in interesting times”, which became the working title and conceptual foundation of the project, is often attributed to Chinese wisdom but gained widespread attention after being quoted by Robert Kennedy in 1966. In my own family, the phrase was often repeated as a dark joke a warning that change is rarely for the better. 

Fucked Time merges personal memory and political commentary, turning my wall clock into a symbol of historical pressure and the loss of control over one’s own destiny.