Nina Power sees double when viewing life from the consummate filmmaker's perspective
For many today, the world seems backward. The right talks online about a ‘clown world’, dominated by liberal values in which everything is upside-down and absurd in equal measure. The left, meanwhile, mourns the election of those they see as clowns, wondering why their progressive ideas are not more popular. The question of perspective as such is left open: where we see things from is rarely itself explored. Art, on the other hand, is nothing other than a perspective on the world – it is here we see how we see, and take a step back, or closer, to understanding how the world, or the cosmos, is framed
Image: Stan Douglas, Doppelgänger, 2019
Installation view, Victoria Miro, 31 January–14 March 2020
© Stan Douglas, courtesy the artist, Victoria Miro, and David Zwirner
