The artwork “World Time Clock” (2023) by Roman Ďurček is a visual reflection on both global and personal time—its relativity, elusiveness, and the pressure it places on the individual in contemporary society. The painting was created as part of the PARADOXES project, which explored shifts in values and the social disorientation of the present day.

The artist works with experimental painting techniques, combining traditional and unconventional pigments, supports, and biochemical oxidation processes. The resulting structure is not merely visual but materially active—it breathes, reacts, and transforms. The work contains layers of figurative elements and abstract structures that can be read as symbols of archetypes, cultural memory, and a crisis of value orientation.

“World Time Clock” is more than a painting. It is a statement about contemporary humanity within the context of global interconnectedness, technological overload, and the social pressure toward performance, success, and identity.