Christian Marclay opens Doors at Brooklyn Museum
Christian Marclay: Doors, an exhibition featuring his film montage of scenes of doors throughout the history of cinema, will open at Brooklyn Museum.
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- Christian Marclay's Doors is compiled from a myriad of film scenes that are carefully spliced together.
- The exhibition featuring Doors opens in June 2025 at Brooklyn Museum.
- Marclay is best known for his acclaimed 2010 film The Clock, which won the Golden Lion at the 2011 Venice Biennale.
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Christian Marclay will exhibit his film Doors (2022) at the Brooklyn Museum this summer. Marclay is best known for his acclaimed 2010 film The Clock, a 24-hour montage of time-related clips, which won the Golden Lion at the 2011 Venice Biennale.
From the doors of Janus in Rome to the Imperial Door of Hagia Sophia in Istanbul, doors have always served as liminal thresholds that individuals had to pass through between different domains, serving as portals to other dimensions. Where previously time represented the focal point of Marclay's attention, doors – which he describes as being “...replete with symbolism… commonplace, yet unfamiliar” – take center stage in this show.
Compiled from a myriad of films and carefully spliced together, as was his method in The Clock, the doors in Marclay's Doors become the main protagonists of this moving image tour de force, with the actors who open them and slam them shut receding into the background. Through deft editing and precise timing, Marclay seamlessly binds together various iterations of doors and the transitions from scene to scene that they mark.
Christian Marclay: Doors at Brooklyn Museum is scheduled to open on June 13, 2025. For more information please visit the Brooklyn Museum site.