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.
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Aitken’s “Digital Detox,” 2020.
The large-scale works, some bearing slogans like Resist Algorithms and Reality Fracking, make up his exhibit at Regen Projects in Hollywood.
Locked away for months during the pandemic, artist Doug Aitken grabbed a pair of scissors, cut up some of his clothing and created quilt-like flags.
“I found myself locked in my house and I thought about creativity,” he tells
The Hollywood Reporter. “You make art with whatever you have that’s in your environment. You adapt.”
The large-scale works make up his new show,
Flags & Debris, at Regen Projects in Hollywood (by appointment, Jan. 16 through March 13). Included are the renowned multimedia artist s first forays into textiles, some bearing slogans: Resist Algorithms, Digital Detox, and Reality Fracking. Says Aitken, I love that phrase cause every day is like a reality frack. What is the description? What is real?
Exhibition of new work by Doug Aitken opens at Regen Projects
Installation view of Doug Aitken Flags and Debris at Regen Projects, Los Angeles, January 16 March 13, 2021 © Doug Aitken, Courtesy Regen Projects, Los Angeles.
LOS ANGELES, CA
.-Regen Projects is presenting Flags and Debris, an exhibition of new work by Los Angeles-based artist Doug Aitken. The works form an ecosystem of interconnected mediums, mixing dance, performance, film, sculpture, and handmade objects. Each plays off the other, creating a choreography of images, language, and sound.
The exhibition comprises all new work conceived in the last 10 months, a time of profound change in the face of the pandemic. The body of work reflects the tension collectively felt between our isolation from the physical landscape of the exterior world and newly created spaces for turning inward to explore the subconscious landscape. At heart, the works are a portrait of a society moving toward the future.
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