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Doug Aitken (B. 1968)
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signed 'Doug Aitken' (on a paper label affixed to the reverse)
c-print mounted on aluminium
48 x 60in. (121.9 x 152.4cm.)
Executed in 2008, this work is number four from an edition of six plus two artist's proofs

Provenance

Donated by the artist.

Literature

D. Aitken and P. Hays, "Doug Aitken and Philip Hays", in PA, Issue 2, Küsnacht 2009 (illustrated in colour, p. 35).

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Lot Essay

"I have restlessness with the way a photograph captures time. It's fascinating to me, yet I feel I want something more from the formalism of the medium itself. The static quality of the 'frozen' image or 'decisive moment' is not enough. I want non-decisive moments, inactions, what has happened before or what is to come. I would like to smash a photograph, open it and see what's inside. Maybe then this so-called 'frozen' time could expand and contract. In that sense images are like liquids."
D. Aitken, interview with A. Sharp, Doug Aitken, London, 2001, pp. 23-24.

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