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The Clock: Exceptional presentation all night long
Christian Marclay

The Clock by Christian Marclay is an audiovisual work lasting 24 hours.

Spectacular and hypnotic, it is thousands of film extracts, drawn from the entire history of cinema to compose this mechanism that indicates the time in real time.

Its cinematographic mechanism is regulated with a clockmaker’s precision, marking a century of cinema. The Clock was presented for the first time at the 54th Venice Biennale, in 2011, when Christian Marclay was awarded the Golden Lion for the Best Artist.

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From March 4, 2022 to March 6, 2022
The Tower, Glassroom, Level -2
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© Marc Domage
© Marc Domage

"The Clock" exhibition

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Christian Marclay talks to us about the film “The Clock”

Marclay's The Clock is a study of perception and the notion of time, as well as an exploration of kinematics and the medium of film. It is a 24-hour experiment that reveals the digital imprint of the measurement of temporality through film sequences, deconstructing and reconstructing the meaning of reality through a network of heterogeneous but interconnected moving images. The work emerged as a unique marker in the pre-digital era of moving images and cinema, offering an experience of time and temporality by questioning various concepts such as the relationship between reality and fiction. 

The Clock is a 24-hour video montage of film clips, all containing an indication of the time. As they scroll across the screen, the images indicate the time, perfectly synchronized with the time zone of the screening location. 

The Clock

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Christian Marclay

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Christian Marclay is well known for his work in a wide range of media, including sculpture, video, photography, collage, performance, and music. Born in San Rafael, California, and raised in Geneva, Switzerland, Marclay studied at the Ecole Supérieure d'Art Visuel in Geneva, the Massachusetts College of Art in Boston and Cooper Union in New York. For more than 30 years, he has been exploring the connections between the visual and the audible, creating works in which these two distinct sensibilities enrich and challenge each other.

Marclay's work has been exhibited in museums and galleries internationally including solo exhibitions at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2010), Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul (2010), Garage Center for Contemporary Culture, Moscow (2011), Barbican Art Gallery, London (2005), MAMCO, Geneva (2008), SFMOMA, San Francisco (2002), Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (2001), Kunsthaus, Zurich (1997), Musée d'art et d'histoire, Geneva (1995), among others.