Douglas Gordon, Monster (1997)

Douglas Gordon is a Scottish contemporary artist. He lives and works in Glasgow (Scotland) where he was born in 1966. In the self-portrait Monster, Gordon shows himself to a double image : natural and deformed. We find references to the creatures of Frankenstein, Elephantman or still Eraserhead. This is half-human and half-animal. He shows the discrepancy between identity and otherness. Here, he shows that everything has its dark side.