Douglas Gordon

Douglas Gordon (Glasgow, 1966) is one of the leading artists of his generation. Winner of the Turner Prize in 1996, he works in various media – photography, sculpture, text – but is best known for his particular treatment of the images in his installations.

The artist wanted the exhibition at the Joan Miró Foundation to focus on his work with the projections that reflect his interest in duality and particularly in the subject of dual personality and opposites: good and evil, positive and negative, guilty and innocent, etc. This interest is exemplified in Confessions of a Justified Sinner, an installation based on the film Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde, and also in Through a Looking Glass, based on Taxi Driver, in which the scene is duplicated as if seen through a mirror. In his installations, Gordon manipulates Hollywood classics in their length or format, as a way of paying tribute to them but also so as to disorientate the viewer, confronting us with someone we recognise but who is also rather strange.

Gordon involves himself directly in his work, showing cultural references that are common to many of us. But he also makes himself the protagonist, as in Three inches, in which a close-up of his fingers fills the screen.

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Douglas Gordon: “What you want me to say… I am already dead.”