The spectator between the looking glass
moving-image installations of Douglas Gordon
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Douglas Gordon, moving image installation, contemporary artAbstract
The Scottish artist Douglas Gordon (1966) is celebrated for using Hollywood scenes as a reference for constructing his installations, creating new meanings for well-known films to the public. This essay analyzes seminal works such as 24 Hours Psycho, considered a milestone in the passage from film studies to contemporary art, as well as the moving image installations Through the Looking Glass, exhibited in 1999 at the Venice Biennale, and Practically all film and video works from around 1992 until now (...), shown at the São Paulo Biennial, in 2010. Thus, as a result of the research into the textual documentation of the biennial archives, we aim to introduce the poetic process, which is explicit in the characters’s duality, resonating directly with the artist’s obsessions.
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