Friday, June 26, 2009

Monster, 1996

DOUGLAS GORDON (b.1966)
chromogenic print
printed label with credit, title, date and edition '2/11' on backing board
34 x 50in.

Monster is a characteristically unsettling work by Gordon, a conceptual photographer who wilfully pushes to the limit the sensitivities of his audience and their expectation of what a photograph can be. Gordon -- Turner Prize winner in 1996 -- plays disconcertingly with notions of the fluid nature of identity and its potential transmutations. His pictures are permeated with dark, unquantifiable forces that draw on such sources as film noir and 'High Gothic' fiction.