A sculptural work of art, this house clad in Alucobond panels naturAL Reflect, mirrors its surroundings and every movement of light and atmospheric motion. However, not only the outer mirrored shell is reflective.
The mountain world is drawn deep into the building interior by means of tilted, mirrored surfaces and reflective walls. Visitors who manage to decipher where the landscape ends and the building starts enter a surreal mountain realm in the interior.
Stefan Altenburger
They encounter multiple reflected fragments of the landscape and of themselves, and become part of a kaleidoscope where the observer is also the observed, immersed in the landscape and its atmosphere. The artwork in Gstaad is one of several “Mirage” installations which Aitken has integrated into different settings, for instance, in the Californian desert near Palm Springs or inside a grand old Detroit building. Interaction between humans and their environment is a key theme in all Aitken’s work: installations, performances, video and cinematic art.
Torvioll Jashari
Aitken reveals how a space in constant flux has an impact on people by sequencing, repeating and altering images, and by close observation of people and their surroundings. People inevitability search for a constant in movement.
What is left when we move faster and faster through time and space? When we speed up the rhythm in this digital, mobile and networked world until we spin out of control? So even though the actual building is immobile, “Mirage” is a sensory experience which is both moving and full of motion.
Torvioll Jashari
