Ten Minutes

To obtain an increase of productivity, big companies halved the time of rest break at work. According to the Italian legislation every employer has to guarantee minimum 10 minutes break time. Ten minutes is a time-break in which the person is in a phase of certified immobility. Ten minutes is an interval that interrupts the productivity and reboots the personal time of the worker. The person leaves the structured and rational time of work to enter a free and unstructured time dedicated to his own intimacy. The individuality of each worker comes out for ten minutes and flows in the compressed and uncertain spaces. During these ten minutes the worker’s life begins to flow, comes back to life changing the body’s attitude. These bodies relaxed or closed up in themselves convert time and space into a no-place of escapism. Some workers lock themselves in cramped spaces, other relax their bodies completely, and someone else escapes with their imagination beyond time and space. Everyone is present and absent at the same time. With his work Daniele Cinciripini tries to show the life that happens in those ten minutes. Work time stops and suddenly the places loose their productive purposes. People, things, gestures are suspended, isolated and immersed in a barely perceptible subjectivity.