Stan Douglas
dal 6/11/2014 al 14/2/2015
Segnalato da
6/11/2014
Stan Douglas
The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh
The exhibition includes film, video and photography. Together these works explores Douglas'use of technologies, narratives and realities both virtual and actual, to examine the intersection of history and memory.
The Fruitmarket Gallery presents a solo exhibition of the work of Stan Douglas, who
came to international prominence in the mid–1990s when his film installation Der
Sandmann (1995) was the highlight of Documenta X (1997). Born in 1960 in Vancouver,
Canada, Douglas is known for films, photographs and installations which use new and
outdated technologies, the tropes of cinema and TV, the conventions of various
Hollywood genres and classic literary texts to examine the intersection of history
and memory in evocative, mesmerising works.
This exhibition presents Douglas's films and photographs ranging from Der Sandmann
to the just-completed The Second Hotel Vancouver (2014) which will be exhibited for
the first time at The Fruitmarket Gallery.
Also included is the video installation Vidéo (2007), a reimagining of both Orson
Welles's film The Trial (itself based on Kafka's novel of the same name) and
Beckett's film Film, as well as photographs from Midcentury Studio (2010-11), a
recent series of photographs taken by Douglas posing as a fictional North American
post-war press photographer.
The most recent works in the exhibition foreground Douglas's interest in the
constructed nature of photographic 'reality'. Corrupt Files (2013) which are large
photographs of beautiful, almost painterly abstract images, are material renderings
of pure digital data, whilst Hogan's Alley and its companion piece The Second Hotel
Vancouver (both 2014), are computer generated renderings that look like incredibly
detailed historical photographs, both made as the 'set' for Helen Lawrence, one of
Douglas's most ambitious works to date.
Together these works provide either a rich introduction to, or a reminder of the
practice of Stan Douglas whose investigations into mistaken identity and unstable
memory, reconstruction, reinvention and the long shadows the past cast into the
present, make him one of the most interesting and important artists of our time.
Image: Stan Douglas, Hogan’s Alley, 2014, inkjet print .
For enquiries, please contact Claire Rocha da Cruz, Press and Marketing Manager, E: marketing@fruitmarket.co.uk, T: +44 (0)131 226 8182. .
The Fruitmarket Gallery.
45 Market Street Edinburgh EH1 1DF.
11am-6pm, (Mon – Sat), 12-6pm (Sun)