Doug Aitken: Naked City

Digital Audio Guide

TEMPORARY EXHIBITION
CURATOR: JÉRÔME SANS

Doug Aitken’s first solo exhibition in Türkiye, Naked City at Borusan Contemporary, exceptionally brings together artworks spanning from 2006 to 2024, creating a journey through the building’s architecture. Since the 1990s, the internationally renowned American artist has been pushing the boundaries of the forms in which art can exist, scrutinizing the intricacies and ambivalence of modern life and hyper-connectivity, the meaning of freedom in the age of neoliberal globalization and its possible consequences on isolation, as well as the increasingly porous relationship between humans and technology. By placing people at the heart of his stories, with experiences that confront the individual with the landscape and with others, he infuses his work with a humanist dimension. Aitken’s artworks border on the sublime. They capture and recreate shared moments of grace and awe.

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