The concept of time is a recurrent concern in the work of Regina Virserius : time that passes, that transforms us, that puts us into perspective through the body, landscape, places, objects, and rituals. Virserius was first attracted to the musée des arts et métiers (Museum of Arts and Crafts) by her interest in Foucault's pendulum*, a fascinating object that shows the movement of the earth. A heavy sphere made of steel, brass and lead with a diameter of 18 centimetres, the twenty-five kilogram pendulum has been suspended in the conservatory of the Arts and Crafts' church since 1855. She then became interested in the solid crystal manufactured by Wentzel in 1879, objects used to teach geometry and mathematics, and in the descriptive geometry instruments of Theodore Olivier *, a scientist close to the Lumière brothers.  More...