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Psycho Hitchhiker
Douglas Gordon

black-and-white photograph
edition of 10
45.5 × 59.5 cm
1993

Acquisition 1996
Inv. No. 0018

Douglas Gordon’s themes are time, memory and the psychological mechanisms of people in relation to a changing social structure. One of his works is 24 Hour Psycho, a video version of Hitchcock´s classic, stretched out to 24 hours. The photo Psycho Hitchhiker shows the artist hitchhiking. The destination on his sign is “Psycho”. A multi-layered network of associations and references – hitchhiker and Hitchcock, road movies and the motive of the hitchhiker, the black and white photo and the B movies of the 60´s – make this simple photo into a complex distillation.

Brigitte Huck, 2005 (translation: Tim Sharp)

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Exhibitions

Hey Psycho!, Gagosian, London, 2019

You are here, West Den Haag, Den Haag, 2017

Now, At The Latest. videos and other attractions from the evn collection, Kunsthalle Krems, Krems, 2015

evn collection / institutional presentation, Viennafair, Vienna, 2011

Nach Rokytník. The collection of EVN, MUMOK, Vienna, 2005

There is something you should know. Die EVN Sammlung im Belvedere, Österreichische Galerie Belvedere, Vienna, 2000

KünstlerInnen. 50 Positionen zeitgenössischer internationaler Kunst. Videoportraits und Werke, Kunsthaus Bregenz, Bregenz, 1997

Publications

IACCCA - Art in the Time of Ecological Disruption, Madrid 2021, p. 104

evn collection. 2006–2011, Cologne 2011, p. 328

evn sammlung 95–05, Cologne 2005, p. 114–117

evn sammlung. Ankäufe 1995 – 1996, Maria Enzersdorf 1997, p. 14

KünstlerInnen. 50 Gespräche, Bregenz 1997

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