REFLECTIONS OF STIFLED FUTURES

arly in Perret’s development of the series, the women’s quest for non-capitalist and non-patriarchal lifestyles leads them to the history of Soviet Constructivism. Their research is reflected in the installation (2004), a device that guides the community’s days, while abolishing “the mechanical breakdown of time by the watch,” as Perret writes in . Comprising a ring of eight discs arranged around a central circle, each painted with a graphic symbol, the clock denotes “essential activities” such as “sleeping,