i am in you, 2000
Video installation of five projections of three dvds. 11 minute, 3 second cycle. Installation dimensions variable.
This work is from an edition of four plus two artist’s proofs and is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity signed by the artist.
PROVENANCE Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich
EXHIBITED Zurich, Galerie Hauser & Wirth & Presenhuber, i am in you, June 17 - July 29, 2000 (another example exhibited); Berlin, Kunst-Werke Institute for Contemporary Art, Doug Aitken, February 18 - April 8, 2001 (another example exhibited); Barcelona, La Caixa Foundation, July 7 - September 26, 2004; and Bilbao, Sala Rekalde, October 14 - December 5, 2004, Doug Aitken: We’re safe as long as everything’s moving (another example exhibited); Humlebæk, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Doug AItken: RISE, June 4 - September 22, 2002 (another example exhibited); Kanazawa, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Encounters in the Twenty-First Century: Polyphony—Emerging Resonances, October 9, 2004 - March 21, 2005 (another example exhibited); Munich, Summlung Goetz, Doug Aitken, November 22, 2004 - May 21, 2005 (another example exhibited)
LITERATURE D. Birnbaum, “Top Ten,” Artforum, New York, December 2000, p. 127 (illustrated); U. Verkoeper, “I Am In You,” Ausstellungen, Spring 2000; D. Birnbaum, A. Sharp and J. Heiser, Doug Aitken, New York/London, 2001, p. 15, 108-117 (illustrated); Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, ed., Doug Aitken: RISE, Humlebæk, 2003, p. 4-14 (illustrated on the back cover); 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, ed., Encounters in the Twenty-First Century: Polyphony—Emerging Resonances, Kyoto/Tokyo, 2005, pl. 23 (illustrated)
“You got to run as fast as you can all of the time” and “You got to be sharp!,” whispers the girl in the opening scene of i am in you, 2000. She is maybe ten or eleven (though the age seems unimportant), but sitting there cross-legged in the red gloom, with her eyes moving...
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