VIEW FROM BELOW RUINE BELVEDE OF ‘AM PFINGSTBERG’ AND ROTE KASERNE NEDLITZ, PFINGSTBERG, POTSDAMER SCHREBERGARTEN PORTFOLIO, 1995; II. VIEW OF MOUNT ADAIR FROM RESOLUTION COVE, NOOTKA SOUND SERIES, 1996; III. CREEK AT MCBRIDE BAY, NOOTKA SOUND SERIES, 1996 [THREE WORKS]

STAN DOUGLAS

Canadian photographer and video artist Stan Douglas challenges viewers’ ideas about narrative by creating non-linear, sometimes randomly generated video installations that can continue for days. Douglas’s work engages directly with a variety of source material, from Samuel Beckett’s teleplays to recognizably post-war images in the vein of press photography from that era. Douglas’s films are often accompanied by collections of photographs, as seen in Le Detroit (1999/2000), made after the series Detroit Photos (1997-1998), both of which explore decay and reinvention in beleaguered Detroit.