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Doug Aitken

Courtesy the artist and 303 Gallery. Photo © Ami Sioux

1968
Redondo Beach, CA, United States

Doug Aitken

“The aim of the cinematic is to create an engagement with narrative, is to draw the viewer in, so they lose time,finding themselves inside the story. I thought, if I extend the notion of reflectivity that plays out in my films and apply it to sculpture, the viewer becomes the subject. The mirrored sculptures enact an economy whereby the intermediary is taken out of the equation and the viewer becomes the film.” — Doug Aitken

Doug Aitken is renowned for his innovative art installations, which employ a wide range of artistic approaches to lead us into a world where time, space, and memory are fluid concepts. In Aitken’s artistic practice, he continuously investigates 21st-century cities and the globalized communication of contemporary life, developing and exploring new understandings of imagery and narrative. Through large-scale billboards, site-specific environments, sound works, photography, sculpture, and immersive video installations, Aitken examines the dislocation of images in time and space, as well as the vulnerability of the individual within the context of large-scale industrial and environmental change.

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