Lost

A meditation on the inherent dangers of the alpine landscape, ‘Lost’, the third print in Peter Doig’s ‘Zermatt’ (D1, 2022), uses Doig’s characteristic cartoonishly bright colours to disguise the horrific narrative behind the image. Facing out towards the viewer, hands raised and cupped around their eyes, a lone skier seems to stand in this snowy alpine landscape in search of help. The long, stretched shadow of the figure gives the impression of the fading day and of time running out. Despite being clad in bright orange, the helicopter rescue in the distant sky above appears not to see the skier, evoking the notion of screaming but not being heard.