Materials	Video
Measurement:	Variable Dimensions

 

1988| YOUNG BRITISH ART or BRITART. The desecrating spirit of youth.

Closet 1988 No Future (Sound of the Sinners) 1988 - 1989 Yellow Leaf 1989 Ledger 1989 Above All Else 1991 Untitled (Amber Bed) 1991 Untitled (Black Bed) 1991 Untitled (Floor) 1994 AWAY FROM THE FLOCK 1994 Untitled (Sixteen Spaces) 1995 In Out IV 2000 Untitled 2000 In Out IX 2004 In Out XIII 2004 1-Pentanol 2005 Flowers 2005 Rest 2005 Lean 2005 Village 2006

Douglas Gordon

Don’t think about it

2001

 

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Douglas Gordon’s work delves into the role of memory and imagination in human behaviour, in which all action is the result of dialectics between instinct and knowledge. His field of action leads him to explore the heritage of different arts: of music, for its existence beyond physical space; of literature, for its merging of the real and the imaginary; of the cinema, for the way it links sound and vision. Within these areas his choice of sources may seem very bold, in literature he moves from the Bible to nineteenth-century Scottish tales, in the cinema from the great masterpieces which have become myths to completely unknown B-movies. The same freedom can be seen on the technical plane, where he alternates the use of films, videos, writings, installations and photographs in his work with great nonchalance. In the video Don’t Think About It, a hand repeatedly strikes the objective of the videocamera as if it were trying to resist or to eliminate something, alternating darkness and light in a visual metaphor of refusal and acceptance, of our continual forced choices between what we do or do not want to show through.