WILDERNESS is on @mubi, my favorite streaming site, starting today. Mubi was so essential through Covid, supporting foreign, underground and experimental films created outside of the system. It’s an honor to share our little piece there. ⁠ ⁠ "Characters who linger on a beach, seduced by the views of the Pacific and the rhythms of the surf. A sequence of close-ups dig into their faces, photographing their spectrum of reactions in the presence of the landscape in front of them. Long shots capture the colors of the sun among the clouds, waves and a column of smoke on the horizon. But there is nothing reassuring or idyllic about the beach on the Pacific where Doug Aitken sets his short Wilderness, conceived last April as an immersive video installation for @303gallery in New York. Nature is shown almost en passant, without giving the viewer time to dwell on the images. Aitken focuses on the ways in which his characters contemplate the landscape, rather than the landscape itself. It is a nature always mediated by the perspective of the characters who observe it, indirectly returned to the viewer through a facial expression, a movement of the eyes. A mediation that also extends to smartphone and camera technology. Carmel (Regina Hall) said in the TV series Nine Perfect Strangers that nothing "is real until you post it on social networks", summarizing one of the great contradictions of our time as the impossibility of authentic and disinterested contemplation." -on www.duels.it the complete review by Edoardo Pelligra ⁠ ⁠ @303gallery @regenprojects @victoriamirogallery @galerieevapresenhuber @mubiitalia @mubifrance @mubiuk @mubibrasil @mubiusa @duels.it ⁠@inlandempire92 @mubideutschland #mubiitalia #mubifrance #mubiuk #mubibrasil #mubiusa #mubideutschland #dougaitken #contemporaryart #installationart #filmart #installationart #losangeles #venicebeach⁠ ⁠