A Moment In Time by Clémentine Bedos

A moment in time is a gold-lustred porcelain mango seed that acts as a memento vivere. Standing in counterpoint to the traditional memento mori, it is an ode to life, an invitation to remember to rejoice in the abundance of life.

Created specifically for this exhibition of the same name, the work reflects on an encounter with the divine experienced through the simple act of eating a mango. In a moment of distress, helplessness gave way, the present widened, time stretched, and Bedos felt held within the “seeds of time,” blessed by the juiciness of life.

Rooted in the Buddhist idea that we collect what we sow, the mango appears throughout Bedos' practice as a motif of joy, pleasure, sensuality, and our capacity to heal in the face of historical violence. This piece continues a thread of works previously shown at Van Gogh House for the exhibition Loving Fugitives, Runaway Images (2023), including The Astrologer-Poet, in dialogue with Van Gogh’s painting The Sower, and a rose-seed ritual that gestured toward the adjacent Durand’s Garden.

Product Information

Clémentine Bedos
A moment in time
porcelain (gold lusted)
11cm x 6.5cm x 1.5cm
2025 

About the Artist

Clémentine Bedos is a London-based transmedia artist. Drawing from a diverse ancestry (Haitian, Gitane, Kabyle, European) and a background in law, philosophy, and fine arts, Bedos’ practice explores the interrelated phenomena of mind, body, and consciousness within hegemonic systems of identity. Disrupting colonial logics, their work reorients aesthetic focus inward, reclaiming the body, its sensuality, and inner visuality as sites of emancipation and non-duality.

Recent projects include The Eternal Exchange at Nunhead Cemetery Chapel (London, 2025); Your Rage is Sacred (maa) at FormaHQ (London, 2024) and Goldsmiths Sonic Immersive Media Lab (2023); Metamorph at Eastside Projects (Birmingham, 2024), VSSL, Goldsmiths CCA, and The Bomb Factory (London, 2023); and Loving Fugitives, Runaway Images at Van Gogh House (London, 2023).

Bedos serves as Chair of the Artists Council at a-n, The Artists Information Company, contributing to artist advocacy at national and international levels through IAA Europe and IAA World. They also teach as part of the Senior Tutors team at the Ruskin School of Art, University of Oxford.

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