New York City - This exhibition presents a series of discrete installations by Aernout Mik (Dutch, b. 1962), placed in both non-gallery and gallery spaces throughout the Museum. Aernout Mik—whose work encompasses motion picture, sculpture, architecture, performance, and social commentary—interrogates the nature of reality and subverts the traditional relationship between viewer and viewed. The exhibition includes eight time-based works, including Mik's earliest 16mm film Fluff (1996), shown on television monitors in several locations. On exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art through 27 July, 2009.

Mik's works seem to collide with our experience of the world, deforming and perverting the way we view reality. They stretch our understanding of what we think we know, while at the same time they fail to convince us that what we see is what we see. We could never mistake them for documentation of genuine events, but we also have trouble believing that someone could have made these situations up.

A newly commissioned two-screen work is projected in the corridor facing the second-floor Special Exhibition Galleries, where the six-screen Vacuum Room (2005) and the single-screen Training Ground (2006) are also on view. Raw Footage (2006), Mik's only piece edited from actual newsreel documents, hangs in the Theater 1 Gallery, while the widescreen Osmosis (2005) floats inside the Museum's main lobby near the Fifty-fourth Street entrance. The single-screen floor piece Middlemen (2001) greets visitors in the main lobby near the Fifty-third Street entrance.

Organized by Laurence Kardish, Senior Curator, Department of Film.

The exhibition is made possible by The Contemporary Arts Council of The Museum of Modern Art and the Mondriaan Foundation, Amsterdam.

Additional support is provided by The International Council of The Museum of Modern Art in honor of M. Joseph Lebworth and by The Consulate General of the Netherlands in New York. Visit The Museum of Modern Art at : www.moma.org/