Stan Douglas is a multidisciplinary artist whose works include motion pictures, photographs, live performances, and sculptural installations. Throughout his career, Douglas has used media to explore themes of history, class, and how modern technology mediates our perceptions of both. These themes come to the forefront in his photographic work Exodus, 1975, 2012, in Glenstone’s collection, which captures a carefully reconstructed scene of Portuguese colonists evacuating at the conclusion of the Angolan War of Independence. The scene is captured in a style that evokes both documentary cinema and historical renaissance paintings.

–Nathan Avant, from the Glenstone Field Guide