American artist Doug Aitken explores the nature of freedom in a world dominated by technology in his Return to the Real exhibition, which is on show at London's Victoria Miro gallery.
Comprised of two installations, All Doors Open and Inside Out, Aitken's latest exhibition aims to explore our rapidly changing relationships, both to one another and to the world around us, in a connected world.
Sculptural figures are brought to life by colour-changing lights that pulsate in sync with choral soundscapes.
The artist wanted to create an exhibition that was alive and continuously in flux. For him, this stands as "a portrait of the present", or the "near future".

"Much of the way we've seen art in the past is to look for it to be solid ? to look for an image on the wall of something that we can view and judge and accept or reject," Aitken told Dezeen. "I wanted to create a very de-material exhibition, one that was very liquid and fluid." "I was interested in slowing down time," he explained. "Taking an accelerated world and suddenly slowing it down like a freeze frame, allowing you to look and study and really contemplate the space that has been created around you."
"For me, return to the real is very much a modern portrait ? it's a modern landscape and a portrait of the individual, now," the artist added.

Both installations feature a lone figure in the centre of a vast, open space, accompanied only by everyda...