Where do we begin? Doug Aitken has done it all: video, collage, photography, sculpture, and the list goes on. Twenty years of fearless experimentation has led to this moment, where Doug has takes over the massive Geffen Contemporary at MOCA in Downtown LA for a retrospective on his life's work, titled "Electric Earth."
The dimly lit multi-room exhibit deals with the decay of dreams, heartache, loneliness in the digital age, and nature's wrecking. When you step into the expansive warehouse style room, you're greeted with a circular screen with spiraling imagery —featuring the likes of Beck, Chloe Sevigny, and Tilda Swinton— boosted by echoing music. From there, each work you encounter forces you to float from one piece to the next, in and out of 3D cinema and luminescent sculptures.
"I wanted people to step inside the architecture and lose sense of time and place," he explained at a talk with The National YoungArts Foundation.
And he succeeded—if we weren't kicked out at closing, we probably would have stayed hypnotized until sunrise.
