Stephanie Lebas Huber
Stephanie Lebas Huber is a New York City-based writer and art historian. She received her Ph.D. in art history from the Graduate Center, CUNY, where she studied twentieth-century painting and film history. Her writing has appeared in Art History, Modernism/modernity, Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte, Moving Image Review & Art Journal, Millennium Film Journal, AfterImage, and others. In 2024, she published her first book Dutch Neorealism, Cinema, and the Politics of Painting, 1927–1945 with Routledge.
The Clock, as Marclay describes it, is a memento mori, a device designed to illuminate the fragility, and hence uncertainty of life by pointing to the most universal of fates. Instead of a skull and bones, the artist unearthed clips of movie stars, some dead and others younger than they are now. He asks: if grappling with mortality necessitates the ability to cut through the distractions of earthly life, then how can one be present while constantly looking at the time?
