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Curated by 陌pek Ye臒ins眉, Anna Laudel will present a group exhibition titled 鈥淚ntergalactic鈥�, showcasing selected artworks of 12 contemporary artists. The exhibition departs from the question of what the future will be like if we manage to bring and sustain our civilisation beyond the confines of our planet.

In this exciting age marked by our initiatives ranging from journeying to the dark side of the Moon to space tourism, from attempts at approaching the Sun to the quest for finding life on Mars, 鈥淚ntergalactic鈥� highlights the fact that our current desire to reach beyond our planet鈥檚 boundaries is not solely based on optimistic curiosity but it is also fuelled by the inescapable realisation that we have recklessly exhausted our planet鈥檚 resources. The exhibition asks the viewers some important questions about the future of our civilisation: In an age marked by climate change, dystopian scenarios and technological utopias where all our feelings of belongingness keep eroding, will searching for salvation in deep space be able to achieve anything beyond the creation a romantic dream industry?, Will our anxieties exacerbated by the awareness that our place in the universe is not as important as we have been told for centuries, and our consequently stimulated survival instinct be able to save us from vanishing into eternity? And if our century succeeds at carrying us upwards in the evolutionary ladder, how will our socio-cultural structures be affected?

The exhibition also explores the ways in which the identity building processes, rituals, inter and intra-species communication methods of our society鈥檚 representatives might evolve and change once they settle in other planets or even other galaxies. Offering a non-geocentric critical approach to contemporary dichotomies like the center vs. the periphery, the near vs. the far, the observer vs. the observed, and the past vs. the future, the exhibition will showcase artworks of 12 artists working with various media and disciplines like painting, sculpture, video, photography and new media.