| Description |
This volume assembles a range of photography and 14 moving-image
pieces from the course of Stan Douglas's career. Developed in close
collaboration with the artist, born in Vancouver in 1960, the book is
arranged according to different potential readings of Douglas's work
and his interpretations of history, film and music. The artworks are
redolent with allusions to the suppressed and the failed, lost
Modernist utopias from the autonomous subject to government housing.
For example, Le Detroit looks at the "haunted castle" in its modern
variant, the project high-rise. Pursuit, Fear, Catastrophe: Ruskin
B.C. refers to silent film and the mechanical piano; Win, Place or
Show crosses 1950s home decor with 1960s television; and Evening
traces the inception of infotainment in the outgoing 1960s. Douglas
is represented in New York by David Zwirner gallery. His work was
recently exhibited in a solo exhibition at the Studio Museum, Harlem. |