new skin

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The Broad Art Foundation's new skin, 2002, presents an evolution from Aitken's earlier styles, both physically and conceptually. Projected from four corners of a room onto a pair of suspended, intersecting oval screens, the work is part film and part sculpture. The film depicts a young woman in Tokyo struggling with the realization that she is losing her vision. She surveys objects and images in her apartment, scanning magazines, books and photographs in an attempt to archive images before she becomes blind. Repeating the words, "The more I see, the less I believe in the images I find," the character becomes aware that her insatiable appetite for all that is new is erasing previous memories. (Source: http://www.broadartfoundation.org/collection/aitken.html)