Douglas Gordon – In My Shadow

Scottish artist Douglas Gordon (b. 1966) is one of the most important video artists of recent times. The exhibition at ARoS, which is the largest presentation of Douglas Gordon's works in Europe to date, presents a broad selection of the artist's most significant works.

In his artworks, Gordon focuses on the relationship between light and darkness. He often reuses other people's film material, zooming in on details to turn some of life's big and small questions inside out. He does this by using simple repetition motifs or jumps in scale. In his famous 1999 work Through a Looking Glass, for example, he reused the iconic scene from Martin Scorsese's film Taxi Driver (1976), where the protagonist practices being tough in front of the mirror while repeating are you talking to me?

The exhibition includes Gordon's collaboration with French artist Philippe Parreno (Zidane, A 21st Century Portrait), which follows the footballer Zinédine Zidane in a match from 2005. 17 cameras follow Zidane from all angles with a sharp focus on the man and not the ball. In this way, the psychological mechanisms of the game of football take centre stage, forcing even football deniers to reconsider the dimensions of the sport. The exhibition also shows newer works such as the collaboration with musician Rufus Wainwright, where Wainwright in large close-ups in super slow motion flashes his heavy black make-up eyelashes at a camera that records 1000 frames per second.

Douglas Gordon graduated from the Glasgow School of Art and the Slade School of Fine Art in London from 1988 to 1990. He lives and works in Berlin, Glasgow and Paris and has exhibited in major museums worldwide. Douglas Gordon has received a number of awards, including the famous Turner Prize in 1996.

BECKETT FONDEN

Statens Kunstfond

Knud Højgaards Fond

Panasonic

Ege Tæpper

GAGOSIAN