June 2001
Doug Aitkin
Doug Aitken
USA Collision x 4, 2000
C-print laminated on lucite, 137,2 x 121,9 cm, ed. 6/6Aitken's worlds oscillate between urban traumas and landscape vacuums.
His photographs conjure up overwhelmingly powerful visions of people's nervous rootlessness and the eerie desolation of our cities, at the same time keeping closely to the vibrant pulse of the information age.
In collision x 4 Aitken unleashes his imagination, which feeds on essentially gloomy areas of consciousness, in aerial night photographs of airports. Colored strips shoot through the night like futuristic finishing straights. And who could say with any certainty whether the reflected runways with their rows of colored lights and little clumps of buildings with pointillist illumination are real or already part of some extra-terrestrial terrain.
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