The film portrays these children interacting in the beautiful landscape surrounding this small rural community, inspiring the viewer to reflect upon the passage of time, human connection and the process of looking. The exhibition's highlights include a film and photographs by a Los Angeles artist, Sharon Lockhart - meditative portraits of children whom she came to know during a four-year stay in Pine Flat, California.
What they all have in common, he said, is "a preference for the poetic, the momentary and the modest over the monumental and the heroic." "The art that I have found to be the most interesting in recent years is about our connection to each other, expressed both formally, through diverse styles and often humble materials, and contextually, through a broad range of life experience."įogle scouted the globe for more than two years, viewing the work of hundreds of artists before selecting those featured in the exhibition. The exhibition title was inspired by a David Bowie song of the same name that describes a world spinning out of control, said Douglas Fogle, curator of contemporary art at the museum and of the exhibition.įogle said: "The exhibition poses rhetorical questions: 'Is there life on Mars? Do aliens exist? Or are we ourselves strangers in our own worlds?' In this sense, it is a metaphorical quest to examine the alien inside ourselves, as each artist takes us into different worlds that ask us to reflect upon our own humanity.