07.05.–10.07.2016

Stan Douglas
The Secret Agent

Opening: Fr, 6 May 2016, from 6.30 pm

This new film installation by artist Stan Douglas examines terrorism and political identity in Europe through combined lenses of history and fiction. An adaptation of Joseph Conrad’s 1907 novel, The Secret Agent sets the book’s action and characters within the context of Portugal’s so-called “Hot Summer” of 1975, when numerous terrorist acts by extreme right- and left-wing groups rocked the country. This engrossing and sophisticated film installation combines fiction with history, revisionism with speculation, and political identities with literary ones.

Stan Douglas’ films, videos and photographs have been shown internationally since 1990 at documenta IX, X and 11 (1992, 1997, 2002) and three Venice biennials (1990, 2001, 2005). He has had solo exhibitions in leading museums in Europe and North America. Most recently, he is the 2016 Winner of Hasselblad International Photography Award.

Exhibition tours from Wiels, Brussels and Museu Berardo, Lisbon. A new publication co-produced with Wiels in Brussels accompanies the exhibition. Special thanks to Victoria Miro Gallery, London.

Stan Douglas, born 1960 in Vancouver, lives and works in Vancouver and Los Angeles