Douglas Gordon
DownDown, 2024
Artwork
Douglas Gordon
DownDown, 2024
Life size cast of the artist’s hand and feathers
7 x 20 x 8 cm
(2,76 x 7,87 x 3,15 in.)
Price on request
This new work echoes Sleep (Fly), a bronze hand containing flies from 1966, the artist’s date of birth. This new piece features feathers in the palm of the hand, a reference to the exhibition “The Morning After” at the Institut Giacometti, of which it is the conclusion. Gordon plays on the contrasts between solid bronze and volatile feathers. Seemingly harmless, feathers can become dangerous if - like Gordon - you’re allergic to them. The horizontal position of this work metonymically echoes the statuary of recumbent statues. For the artist, it is reminiscent of an ex voto or a vanitas.
Douglas Gordon
Born in 1966 in Glasgow, Scotland
Lives and works in Berlin, Glasgow and Paris
Lives and works in Berlin, Glasgow and Paris
