London

Kissing with Sodium Pentothal, 1994.

Kissing with Sodium Pentothal, 1994.

London

Douglas Gordon

Hayward Gallery
Southbank Centre, Belvedere Road
November 1, 2002–January 5, 2003

Curated by James Lingwood

If you look hard enough, can you find a precise point at which opposites touch and come apart—when, for example, life becomes death, present becomes past, singular becomes plural, or right becomes wrong? Gordon pursues the question with grim determination, his experiments often seeming like exercises in vivisection. “Douglas Gordon: What Have I Done?”—planned around a “ghosted” autobiography of the artist by novelist Andrew O’Hagan and art historian Francis McKee—threatens to take a scalpel to the delicate area where “Gordon” becomes “not-Gordon.” Curated by Artangel’s James Lingwood (organizer of Feature Film’s stunning first showing in 1999) and the Hayward’s Fiona Bradley, the show comprises some dozen works from the past decade.