Time Histology explores how time leaves traces, drawing a parallel between the human body and material objects. Just as histology studies tissues to reveal their structure and transformation, this art work proposes a way of reading time through marks left on surfaces.

Wrinkles are one of the most visible signs of ageing: records of movement, experience, and lived time written on the skin. They reveal how the body changes, accumulating traces that become part of its identity.

The project extends this idea to paper. Time acts slowly yet gradually, marking surfaces much as wrinkles form on skin. The work invites us to consider how materials, like living tissue, can retain the imprint of their own histories.

The installation takes the form of a portable cabinet containing twelve drawers and twenty-four acrylic plates. Each plate holds fragments of paper carefully removed from archival typography stamps once used in cerebral anatomy tests for FMUL medical students. Stored since the 1940s and coated with a protective layer of bitumen, the stamps remained in prolonged contact with the papers that covered them. Over decades, both, the relief of the stamps and the bitumen, left beautiful impressions on the paper.

Presented as histological samples, these fragments are treated as a form of tissue. This work brings paper and skin into dialogue, suggesting that both register the passage of time through marks, impressions, and the gradual processes of ageing.