Victoria Miro is delighted to co-present with 303 Gallery, New York, Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich, and Regen Projects, Los Angeles, a new video installation of Doug Aitken’s largescale, interactive work Underwater Pavilions, 2017.
The video installation Underwater Pavilions explores three remarkable sculptures of the same name. In December 2016, Doug Aitken moored these geometric mirrored forms to the ocean floor off Catalina Island, California. Their environments reflect light through kaleidoscopic interiors and even harbor ocean life on their rock-like surfaces, opening a portal that physically connects viewers to the expanse of the ocean while simultaneously disrupting preconceived visual ideas of the aquatic world. The three-screen video installation furthers the otherworldly experience by immersing viewers in the underwater realm. Chronicling the artworks – from installation to their encounters with divers and aquatic life – the installation tunes viewers into the rhythm of the ocean and its life cycles, as the structures adjust with the currents and time of day. Viewers experience a variety of converging perceptual encounters that play with the fluidity of time and space, where the language of contemporary architecture, land art, and ocean research merge.
Image: Doug Aitken, Underwater Pavilions, 2017 (still)
Video installation with 3 channels of video, color, sound
Victoria Miro, 303 Gallery, Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Regen Projects
© Doug Aitken
San Marco 1994,
Calle Drio La Chiesa
30124 Venice, Italy
t: +39 041 523 3799
info@victoria-miro.com
View map
During exhibitions:
London: Tuesday–Saturday: 10am–6pm.
Venice: Tuesday–Saturday: 10am–1pm & 2–6pm.
We are also closed on Sundays, Mondays and public holidays.
Admission free.
All general enquiries should be sent to
info@victoria-miro.com
Victoria Miro does not accept unsolicited artist applications.
Before contacting or subscribing please read our Privacy Policy
We respect the choices you make about how you would like to hear from us. You will find links at the bottom of all emails we send from our mailing list which allow you to Update your preferences to change the way we contact you, or Unsubscribe if you want to opt out.
Read our Modern Slavery Statement here.
Read our sustainability statement here.
This website uses cookies
This site uses cookies to help make it more useful to you. Please contact us to find out more about our Cookie Policy.