Doug Aitken Launches Ambitious VR Exhibition Spread Across Four Galleries

Doug Aitken’s awe-inspiring work comments on the aesthetics of the future and the conflict between modernity and nature. His video work New Era (2018), for example, is about the invention of the cellular telephone, investigating the chasm between the imagined for future of this technology and its actual impact on society; installations like Return to Real (2019) used translucent sculptures of women and their phones, along with a sonic and light counterpart, to again touch on the entan