About this artwork
This work consists of a list of names, displayed in columns, as if it were a war memorial or a roll of honour. They are the names of everyone the artist has ever met, or more precisely, everyone he can remember meeting. Gordon says of this work, 'It was an accurate and honest statement but it was full of mistakes (like forgetting the names of some friends), so there were some embarrassing elements in the work, but that all seemed to be quite close to the truth of how our head functions anyway. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't.'
Updated before 2020
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artist:Douglas Gordon (born 1966) Scottish
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title:List of Names (Random)
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date created:After 1990
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materials:Wall text, typeface variable
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measurements:Variable
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credit line:Purchased with the Iain Paul Fund 2000
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accession number:GMA 4335
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artwork photographed by:Antonia Reeve
Douglas Gordon
Douglas Gordon
Gordon was born in Glasgow and studied at Glasgow School of Art and the Slade School of Fine Art, London. He has worked in video, photography, sound, text and other media and uses predominantly 'found' material. Gordon is fascinated by our binary nature and our tendency to split things into...