Douglas Gordon

Throughout his diverse practice—spanning photography, video, performance, sound, and text-based work—Douglas Gordon recontextualizes familiar images and artworks, distorting time, language, and other aesthetic aspects to challenge viewers’ perception, expectation, and memory. Gordon draws on sources ranging from Hollywood films to classical literature and folklore; he mines these productions for new meanings and explores the binaries within them. One of the artist’s most famous pieces, 24 Hour Psycho (1993), slows down the famous Alfred Hitchcock film to play over the course of 24 hours rather than its original 110-minute runtime. Between Darkness and Light (After William Blake) (1997) is a two-channel video installation that pairs one film about divine revelation with another about satanic possession. Gordon has exhibited extensively in cities around the world. His work has sold for up to six figures at auction and belongs in the collections of the Fondation Louis Vuitton, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, the Kunstmuseum Basel, the Guggenheim Museum, the Tate, and the Museum of Modern Art.