The Turner Prize-winning artist Douglas Gordon still hopes to screen his and Philippe Parreno’s film Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait (2006) at the Vélodrome football stadium in Marseille—one of the main venues of the Euro 2016 football championships. The film follows the footballer Zinedine Zidane in real time through an entire 90-minute match. Gordon thinks it would play well to an audience in the legend’s home town, but accepts a screening will probably have to wait until a significant footballing anniversary. The Scottish artist was speaking as his latest stage work, Bound to Hurt, had its Swiss premiere during Art Basel in June. It stars the soprano Ruth Rosenfeld as the lone performer (except for a figure under a sheet that remains static throughout) in a dark musical about domestic abuse. The loud soundtrack—the audience is given earplugs on entry—ranges from songs by the Prodigy to Donna Summer, and is complemented by the tinkle of empty wine bottles strewn over the stage. Before the preview, Gordon poured a bottle of red wine over the stage in “a kind of blessing”—much to the surprise of the co-producer of the show, the British composer Philip Venables.
