Stan Douglas : Disco Angola

23 Nov 2013-18 Jan 2014

Overview

Victoria Miro Mayfair is delighted to present Disco Angola by Stan Douglas, the artist's second solo show with Victoria Miro and his first at our new Mayfair gallery. In Midcentury Studio, Douglas' first exhibition with Victoria Miro, monochrome photographs were created in the guise of a mid-twentieth century Canadian press photographer. In the case of Disco Angola the artist assumes the persona of a fictional photo-journalist living in the mid 1970s and documenting two very different worlds: the nascent disco underground in New York and the civil war in newly independent Angola. From these culturally and geographically incongruent communities emerges a subtle dialogue that encompasses self-expression, liberation and culture.