Tauba Auerbach - Editions & Works on Paper New York Friday, March 11, 2022 | Phillips

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  • Catalogue Essay

    "I've always had a very fraught relationship with time. I was born two weeks late, and I’ve been late to pretty much everything since. I relate to time in a totally illogical, fantasy-based way, and when I really start to think about it, I'm not sure I believe it “actually” exists. Why is it asymmetrical, running only in one direction? Or does it? Could it be an artifact of another spatial dimension? Could it be a circle or a surface rather than a line?

    For the last few years I've been trying to become friends with time. Trying to be punctual, trying to see time as an ally rather than a foe. In a conversation with my friend Xylor a few years ago, I learned that she always finds extra time in her day, which is quite different from my experience. Upon parting ways I asked her to help me become friends with time. She then sent me a post card with some tips. One of them was to buy clocks that I like and display them prominently. I took this advice, and have since acquired a collection of interesting time pieces. One of my favorite purchases is a clock that has a 24-hour movement. I've found this one particularly helpful because it forces me to stop and think for an extra second or two when I’m reading the time. The hand positions are not what I'm used to, and I can’t just glance at it and know what time it is. I have think, to interact with time anew and at a little bit of a distance when I look at this clock, not as a familiar, problematic relative that I engage with lazily. I wanted to spread this experience out and make it more my own by designing my own 24 hour clock." - Tauba Auerbach

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Lot offered with No Reserve

The Clock

2013
24-hour analog wall clock, contained in the original cardboard packing box.
diameter 10 1/2 x 7/8 in. (26.7 x 2.2 cm)
Signed in red and blue marker on the reverse, published by The Thing Quarterly, San Francisco.

Estimate
$400 - 600 

Sold for $819

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Editions & Works on Paper

New York Auction 11 March 2022