Douglas Gordon: Magic is sometimes very close to nothing at all

Gagosian, Beverly Hills Los Angeles · Mid-City

Douglas Gordon’s conceptual practice spans film, photography, installation, text, and sculpture, exploring memory, identity, time, and the psychological tensions between opposites. Often appropriating familiar cultural references, from cinema and music to sports, he transforms them into meditations on perception, emotion, and collective experience. His acclaimed film Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait, created with Philippe Parreno, exemplifies this approach by using football to examine celebrity, isolation, and the rhythms of human attention.

Artist

Douglas Gordon

Douglas Gordon (b. 1966, Glasgow, Scotland) is a Scottish conceptual artist whose multidisciplinary practice spans film, video, photography, installation, text, sound, and sculpture. Renowned for his explorations of memory, identity, time, and perception, Gordon often recontextualizes familiar images from cinema, music, literature, and popular culture to reveal psychological and emotional complexities. He first gained international recognition with 24 Hour Psycho (1993), a slowed-down projection of Alfred Hitchcock’s classic film, and was awarded the Turner Prize in 1996. His work has been the subject of major exhibitions at institutions including the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Tate Britain, London; the Guggenheim Museum, New York; the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh; and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Gordon’s works are held in leading museum collections worldwide, and he lives and works between Berlin, Glasgow, and Paris.