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Doug Aitken's video installations and photographs are located between documentation and fiction. Sammlung Goetz presented a selection of art by the American artist in its BASE 103 media area. These works reflect the tense relationship between nature and civilization.
The 1995 eruption of the Soufrière Hills volcano on the Caribbean island of Monserrat is the starting point of the video installation Eraser (1998). Taking a fictitious walk, the seven-part artwork shows how nature reclaims a piece of land that humans have left. I am in you (linear version) (2000) provides insights into the emotional world of a very young girl. The combination of image and sound in this single-channel video projection gradually causes the interior and exterior perspectives to diverge.
Doug Aitken's photographs form an independent work complex in his oeuvre. Similarly to his video installations, they poetically focus on the relationship between time and space. In the lounge area of BASE 103, Sammlung Goetz presented the photographs The movement (2000) and the monumental tryptich Two second separation II (1999).
Doug Aitken became internationally known through his prizewinning video installation Electric Earth (1999) which was shown at the Venice Biennale.
