Under the Sun

Event Name: Doug Aitken: Under the Sun
Artists: Doug Aitken
Curated By: Roya Sachs and Mafalda Kahane

If time were a landscape to be traversed rather than a line to be measured, Under the Sun unfolds as a three-part meditation on memory, perception and transformation. The exhibition invites viewers to move through past, present and future not as abstract concepts but as lived environments shaped by material, light and image.

Doug Aitken is an American multidisciplinary artist known for immersive film, sculpture, light and installation work that probes how humans interact with technology, space, history and each other. With a practice spanning moving image, sound, architecture and crafted materials, his work dissolves boundaries between media to create layered sensory experience. Under the Sun includes major new commissions made in collaboration with Indian artisans — from hand-embroidered textiles inspired by sacred rivers to wooden sculptures and immersive lightwork — reflecting a dialogue between tradition and innovation.

The exhibition offers a rare chance to encounter art that operates as both narrative and environment, where handcrafted surfaces and cutting-edge digital media converge. From carved material landscapes to mirrored film chambers and hypnotic light sculptures, visitors are encouraged to reflect on how we anchor ourselves in past traditions, experience the accelerated present and imagine emerging possibilities.