Douglas Gordon is one of the most highly regarded British video-artists and the first to win the Turner prize. Using film and video as a means to experiment with identity and the mechanics of memory, his work abstracts film images to provide an alternative experience of human observation. In the artist’s sixth exhibition at the Yvon Lambert gallery in Paris, Phantom features three autobiographical installations. A half destroyed neon work titled Unfinished, featuring the words “I am the centre of the world”, and a series of four hundred framed works - an open diary of Douglas’ personal belongings – delves into the dark depths of the artists vulnerability through the objectification in their exposure. Phantom – the main body of this collective, is a collaborative work with singer-songwriter Rufus Wainwright. Surrounded by mirrors and a grand piano, a video of Wainwright’s eye plays in darkness, inviting observers to question the fragmented and torturous nature of self.
Phantom, Yvon Lambert, 108 rue Vieille-du-Temple, 75003, Paris, until June 3
