Douglas Gordon is a Scottish artist whose eclectic practice includes works in video, photography, text, and sculpture. He is known for his use of found material, especially from Hollywood cinema, and his exploration of memory, identity, duality, and time. He often manipulates film footage—stretching out its duration or juxtaposing images—to challenge common understandings of motion pictures. In his work through a looking glass, 1999, Gordon excerpts a monologue from Martin Scorsese’s 1976 film Taxi Driver, in which the main character addresses the camera. Projecting the same scene on two mirrored screens, the two clips quickly move out of sync, creating a frenzied visual and audio dialogue. Overturning traditional ways of consuming cinema, Gordon disrupts viewers’ linear sense of narrative and time.

–Mason Cho, from the Glenstone Field Guide