DOING TIME is a series of wall clocks designed to give Rebibbia’s inmates the possibility to express their creativity.

A very subtle prison tattoos you might come across is a tattoo of a clock with no hands. It means ‘doing time’, a colloquial expression for “spending time” in jail. It’s usually representative of a long prison sentence but it can also refer to the different time perception of a convicted person who can view time as somewhat meaningless.