Abraham Thomas
Abraham Thomas is the Daniel Brodsky Curator of Modern Architecture, Design and Decorative Arts at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Previous positions include Curator-in-Charge of the Renwick Gallery, and Senior Curator at the Arts and Industries Building, both at the Smithsonian Institution. Prior to this, in London, he was Curator of Designs at the V&A and served as Director of Sir John Soane’s Museum. He works primarily on architecture and design of the 19th century to the present including the broader intersections with graphic design, photography, fashion and film. In 2024, he curated “Materialized Space: The Architecture of Paul Rudolph” at the Met.
Throughout The Clock, architecture operates as both a framing device and as a passageway, linking various scenes, characters and conversations, across time and space. Just as the display of specific times manages to unify otherwise unrelated filmic worlds through Christian Marclay’s jump cuts, certain architectural typologies—city squares, bedrooms, railway stations, offices, etc.—suggest a sense of continuity between the histories and activities that the vast collective cast of The Clock experiences.
