"Cinema is dead. It might be fun to raise the dead. I’m looking for something that might replace cinema, not film. Some way of reviving that enjoyment."
Scottish artist Douglas Gordon is one of the members of the Young British Artists group who apply the "shock strategy" by using animals and unusual materials to make art. His multifaceted work (videos, installations, photographs, etc.) vigorously rejects any notion of personal style and undermines the idea of an auteur through a practice based on the appropriation of diverted and returned images. His works draw on conceptual art, Hollywood cinema, 19th century Scottish Gothic literature, or rock culture. Playing on the viewer's experience through the distortion of time and the fragmentation of space, Douglas Gordon questions the collective memory and the interiority of the subject.