Inspired by Henri Bergson’s notion of duration—time as it is lived and felt, rather than measured—this work transforms the simplest of rituals into an existential encounter. Each capsule contains a sugar cube embedded with a single flower petal, preserved not for consumption, but for observation.

Placed in water, the sugar begins to dissolve—slowly, silently.
The viewer is asked not to act, but to watch.
To sit with the tension of waiting.
To witness something sweet disappear without being touched.

In that act of passive presence, minutes stretch. The flower emerges gradually, revealed and suspended in a quiet bloom. Time thickens. The ephemeral becomes unbearable. The melting sugar becomes a soft metaphor—for beauty, for loss, for the way we measure our lives through things that vanish.

This is a meditation on the impermanence of sweetness.
On how stillness can distort time.
And on how something as ordinary as watching sugar dissolve can reveal the unbearable intimacy of being alive.

Durée invites the viewer to meet themselves in the slow drift of dissolution—to feel time not as a clock, but as a sensation. Elusive, elastic, and ultimately, irreversible.