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Repetition, Montage, Archive… Stan Douglas

Stan Douglas, Abbott & Cordova, 7 August 1971, 2008 © Stan Douglas. Courtesy the artist, Victoria Miro and David Zwirner
In this in-depth essay, art historian and critic Shep Steiner explores the significance of the number two in Stan Douglas’s work. As Steiner demonstrates – covering works from the 1990s to the past 10 years – two encapsulates a logic that unfolds through most of the artist’s production. Two as that which structures montage; two-channel moving image installations; or two, as in the relationship between history and the archive.

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