History is fickle; those who write it are fickler still. The slippage between truth and fiction has been a long-standing preoccupation for the Canadian artist Stan Douglas, whose video installation Doppelgänger traces two parallel timelines, each as seemingly plausible as the other. Set in an alternative present, Doppelgänger is displayed across two square-format, translucent screens – both of which can be viewed from either side. A looped narrative unfolds in vignettes that depicts concurrent events occurring in worlds that are light years apart.
Image: Doppelgänger, 2019, installation view, Victoria Miro, 31 January–14 March 2020
© Stan Douglas, courtesy the artist, Victoria Miro, and David Zwirner
February 14 2020
