20 October 2026 — 10 January 2027

Stan Douglas: Parallax

The Jeu de Paume presents “Parallax”, the most important monographic exhibition devoted to Stan Douglas in France in more than thirty years. Since the late 1980s Douglas has developed an ambitious body of work that questions how history is constructed, represented and passed on. Through complex narrative devices, he exposes the mechanisms by which images shape our perception of reality and reveal the social, political and cultural tensions of each era. Stan Douglas lives and works in Vancouver. From the outset his practice has combined film and photography, focusing on the processes at work in the making of reality and treating perception as a subject in its own right. In his installations he continues to reflect on the role of technology in the production of images and on the ways images shape collective memory. Although each of his works is rooted in a specific historical and cultural context, they resonate far beyond it and take on a universal dimension. The exhibition’s title, “Parallax”, refers to the apparent shift in an object’s position depending on where the viewer stands. This optical phenomenon shows that every gaze is oriented and contingent, the product of a partial perspective. In the same way, Douglas challenges linear and deterministic visions of history to show that narratives are constantly being built and interrupted: no image is neutral, and no story can ever be considered complete.

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