Jason Farago writes about Stan Douglas’ Doppelgänger in The New York Times

'Saving the day is the terrifically smart Canadian artist Stan Douglas, whose video installation “Doppelgänger” uses two projectors, on either side of a translucent central screen, to narrate a tale of quantum mechanics and split personalities. An astronaut is teleported to a spacecraft, but something goes wrong along the way; she gets copied, and her colleagues back on Earth panic that each astronaut may be an alien twin of the other. (The plot wittily hinges on a phrase that reads differently depending on where you’re sitting: the Marxian LIVE REIFIED TIME or, in reverse, the satanic EMIT DEIFIER EVIL.'

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Image: Stan Douglas, Doppelgänger, 2019

Installed at the 58th International Art Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia, May You Live In Interesting Times, 2019

© Stan Douglas

Courtesy the artist, Victoria Miro, and David Zwirner