Under the Clouds. João Ribas. Serralves
Posted in Exhibition catalogue, history, writing on September 23rd, 2015Tags: Enrico Baj & Sergio Dangelo, Frances Stark, Hito Steyerl, João Ribas, Metahaven, Sean Landers, Seth Price, Stan VanDerBeek, Thomas Hirschhorn
Under the Clouds: from Paranoia to the Digital Sublime
Since the second half of the twentieth century, we have lived under the shadow of two clouds: the mushroom cloud of the atomic bomb, and now the ‹cloud› of information networks. How did the symbol of post-war paranoia become the utopian metaphor for today’s interconnected world? Under the Clouds confronts the interrelated effects and affects of these two clouds on life and work, leisure and love, and on images, bodies and minds, through contributions from an intergenerational group of artists.
Texts by
Enrico Baj & Sergio Dangelo, Thomas Hirschhorn, Sean Landers, Metahaven, Seth Price, João Ribas, Frances Stark, Hito Steyerl, Stan VanDerBeek
€34