Parreno and Gordon worked in collaboration to produce this film about world-renowned French football player Zinedine Zidane. The video watches Zidane’s movement throughout an entire game, and captures Zidane in a multi-dimensional space leading the spectator to experience the sensations and movements of an athlete. It comprises a dynamic cinematic masterpiece as well as having huge social and cultural nuances that will touch and interest a broad audience base. In 2005 Carlow Arts Office’s, through the programming strand Visualise, brought Douglas Gordon to the town to make a site-specific live art work. This programming strand was designed to lead into the construction and operation of VISUAL, and now this opportunity to bring this work to Carlow brings this project full circle. VISUAL is working with Douglas Gordon and his studio in the presentation of this work.

Douglas Gordon is a Scottish artist who now lives and works in New York, he won the prestigious Turner Prize in 1996 and has exhibited in Museums and Galleries extensively throughout the world. Phillipe Parreno is an Algerian artist who lives in France. He has led an internationally recognized career and most recently had a solo show at the George Pompidou Centre Paris, and the Irish Museum of Modern Art.