CHRISTIAN MARCLAY (B. 1955)

Christian Marclay works across a variety of different media including performance, video, photography and sculpture, however all of his work relates back to the importance of sound. This cyanotype depicts various deconstructed cassette tapes that seem to turn into an abstract underwater scene. Marclay uses a now obsolete technology to create a body of work that is entirely novel. The tapes of these cassettes seem to fall, coil and wrap around each other at random, harking back to the idea of chance in Abstract Expressionism.