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Plenty of artists and filmmakers have set out to capture empty urban landscapes in moments of COVID-19 isolation, but artist Doug Aitken’s new multiscreen film
installation made in collaboration with L.A. Dance Project viscerally engulfs the viewer in the early days of the pandemic.
Aitken’s film, paired with his new fabric works and light box sculptures on view at the Regen Projects gallery exhibition “Flags and Debris,” conjure the acute uncertainty and oddly alluring stillness of that moment.
It was in that quietude last spring that Aitken who typically produces multimedia works and large-scale installations began to cut up his old clothing. It’s the first time the artist has worked with fabric, and the resulting hand-sewn tapestries suggest slow-paced quilting and domestic interiors, a stark contrast to his previous immersive earth works.