Doug Aitken - Mirage

Special, limited edition. Fragile, handle with care. Dedicated to American artist, Doug Aitken’s three iterations of the ‘Mirage’ installation in Palm Springs, Detroit, and Gstaad (2017–2021), this publication offers the reader an experiential book that shares some of the characteristics of the artwork – immersive emotion, disrupted perception, merging of the viewer and the landscape. A site-specific installation successively exhibited in the California desert outside Palm Springs, a defunct Detroit bank, and the Swiss Alpine landscape of Gstaad, ‘Mirage’ is inspired by the ranch-style suburban American house (informed by the ideas of architect Frank Lloyd Wright) and entirely composed of reflective mirrored surfaces. A visual echo-chamber, its mirrored surfaces form a life-size kaleidoscope that absorbs and reflects the landscape. Subject and object, interior and exterior, the tangible and the ephemeral, the psychological and the physical, built architecture and landscape: each of the