Breaking the Rules

Swiss Haute Horlogerie manufacturer Audemars Piguet presents To Break the Rules, You Must First Master Them at the Yuz Museum in Shanghai, an exhibition which showcases the Manufacture’s pioneering spirit in both contemporary art and watchmaking

Chinese artist Cheng Ran

In room XII Chinese artist Cheng Ran awakes audiences to new experiences and interpretations with his video titled Circadian Rhythm. Inspired by his visit of the Vallée de Joux, he transforms the mechanical sound of the watch into a rhythm, played alongside images of the Jura Mountains as well as images of the delicate interior of a watch. The latter appears as an abstract new world somehow related to the natural environment. The rhythm determines the changing imagery, as if sound originates from nature.

Ran's new video work "Circadian Rhythm"

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