In the Line of Flight, for Possible Worlds
In perilous times when war breaks loose, plagues run rampant, markets are melting down and ecospheres have anguished, a line of flight furnishes a swath of necessary resilience in the plight of despair. But the line of flight is much more than a path of retreat or a roundabout or even a formation of defense, it is as much a front of engagement and advance, an initiative that inspires nomadic incursion, an opportunity to disrupt and realign, and to agitate zones of emergence.
The exhibition In the Line of Flight, for Possible Worlds, gathers a plethora of worlds. These are worlds between visceral entrapment (ZHANG Peili) and an unreal journey (Jakob Kudsk Steensen); mystic parables of the ancient (ZHOU Xiaohu) juxtaposed with quotidian stories of urbanity (Alex Da Corte and Jayson Musson); Avatar, obsessed with the sunset, may envy the intimacy that only lovers can share in the real world (LIN Ke); and fantastic game-land (LU Yang) vying with whimsical metamorphosis of humans and flies (Christa Sommerer and Laurent Mignonneau); the mudland of geology bricolaged in culture and nature (Pierre Huyghe) permeates into an underwater dreamland of technology, power, corruption, art, and warfare all propelled by artificial intelligence (Hito Steyerl); a toast from the ether-land caresses Covid-stricken fatigue (Dorian Gaudin and Zachary White); finally, a literal flight out of the fossil world (Tom谩s Saraceno) ushers us into the cosmic grandeur of the time immemorial (Arthur Ganson).
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In perilous times when war breaks loose, plagues run rampant, markets are melting down and ecospheres have anguished, a line of flight furnishes a swath of necessary resilience in the plight of despair. But the line of flight is much more than a path of retreat or a roundabout or even a formation of defense, it is as much a front of engagement and advance, an initiative that inspires nomadic incursion, an opportunity to disrupt and realign, and to agitate zones of emergence.
The exhibition In the Line of Flight, for Possible Worlds, gathers a plethora of worlds. These are worlds between visceral entrapment (ZHANG Peili) and an unreal journey (Jakob Kudsk Steensen); mystic parables of the ancient (ZHOU Xiaohu) juxtaposed with quotidian stories of urbanity (Alex Da Corte and Jayson Musson); Avatar, obsessed with the sunset, may envy the intimacy that only lovers can share in the real world (LIN Ke); and fantastic game-land (LU Yang) vying with whimsical metamorphosis of humans and flies (Christa Sommerer and Laurent Mignonneau); the mudland of geology bricolaged in culture and nature (Pierre Huyghe) permeates into an underwater dreamland of technology, power, corruption, art, and warfare all propelled by artificial intelligence (Hito Steyerl); a toast from the ether-land caresses Covid-stricken fatigue (Dorian Gaudin and Zachary White); finally, a literal flight out of the fossil world (Tom谩s Saraceno) ushers us into the cosmic grandeur of the time immemorial (Arthur Ganson).
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