Christian Marclay

First and foremost a visual artist, Marclay maintained a high-profile international career as a musician and composer. He pioneered the use of records and turntables as media for performance and improvisation. Similarly, he applied the principles of collage and sampling to transform ready-made materials including vinyl records, record covers, magnetic tape, musical instruments and Hollywood films into collages, sculptures and video installations.

Taking its cue from the gap between what we see and what we hear, Marclay’s artistic practice not only focuses on the immediately audible qualities of sound but also on the way these are recorded, reproduced and translated into visual representations. His works highlight how our experience of sound – and its opposite, silence – is determined by the culture in which we live.