For over four decades, Stan Douglas’s installations have probed how history is conveyed and then subsequently shaped by memory. Creating what he calls “recombinant narratives,” the multidisciplinary artist places archival events in different contexts, reassembling a new reality with CGI or staged presentations. In his latest feat, Douglas asserts that history has an ephemeral nature—its narratives are nonlinear and perpetually changing. “Parallax,” a large survey exhibition, combines Douglas’s film installations and photographic series, including his Birth of a Nation (2025), which exposes the original 1915 film’s racial bigotry by reconstructing its events. “I can’t predict the future, so in a way, my science fiction—like everything else, like historical things—is an allegory of the present,” Douglas told Interview Magazine in 2020. Over 40 works come together in this monumental monograph. —Maggie Turner