Doug Aitken, Eraser, 1999

Doug Aitken, Eraser, 1999

This piece of work refers to the feedback relationship between film and spectator.

"In many ways the process of my work is an ongoing experiment to see how I can open myself to a larger field of experience and information. In my installations I don't see the narrative ending with the image on the screen. Every inch of the work or architecture is a component of the narrative."

This expansion of film in space takes up a fundamental cinematic principle: the human need to be transported to another place, to assume a different identity, and to use a perfect illusion to bring about this transition.