Doug Aitken

Mirror Seattle Art Museum, 2013, graphic samples of architectural and moving image installation, courtesy of the artist

art installation
interview by ANNABEL FERNANDES

 

Attempting to pigeonhole such a multifaceted artist as Doug Aitken is pointless. It is possible to generalize, however, that large external projections are a common theme in his body of work. From Glass Horizon in 1998 at the Vienna Secession building to his most recent and most site-specific work Altered Earth in Arles last autumn, Aitken is a pro in brilliantly executed spectacles. No doubt that’s what the late Seattle arts patron Bagley Wright presumed when commissioning Aitken to create Mirror, an LED display for the facade of the Seattle Art Museum. The permanent fixture will be revealed this March.
ANNABEL FERNANDES — What is Mirror?
DOUG AITKEN — With Mirror, the artwork will become the surface of the building. An LED…