"Doors debuted in London in 2023 and builds on the visual language of The Clock with an eye on thresholds. It features hundreds of spliced moments from films found and foraged in which characters enter and exit interstitial space. Using expert editing to explore the endless permutations of discovery, Doors ruminates on the connectivity of sight and sound, leading viewers through a rhapsodic cycle of bodies, eras, dialects and experiences."
"Marclay, a Swiss and Californian pioneer of time-based media, turned the art world on its axis with (2010), a 24-hour filmic opus that debuted at New York's Paula Cooper Gallery before embarking on a global tour. Dubbed "an addictive masterpiece" by The New Yorker, The Clock earned Marclay a reputation as a singular Pop Art synthesist; the following year, the film earned him the coveted Golden Lion award at the Venice Biennale."
Christian Marclay's Doors (2022) is a 54-minute cinematic collage composed of hundreds of spliced film moments featuring characters entering and exiting interstitial spaces. The work builds on the visual language of The Clock (2010) and emphasizes thresholds, cyclical patterns, and recurring clips that create musical, rhapsodic flows across bodies, eras, dialects and experiences. The Brooklyn Museum and the Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum co-purchased Doors and installed it in a newly constructed Moving Image Gallery sized and configured to Marclay's specifications. Doors juxtaposes sight and sound through expert editing and explores permutations of discovery and connectivity across cinematic fragments.
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