UNSW Galleries is proud to present the Australian premiere of a major new installation which holds a dramatic mirror to some of the immense challenges confronting the world today. 'EXIT' is a picture of a planet in trouble.
In an immersive, 360-degree installation, 'EXIT' visually correlates global human migratory trends with urgent social and economic issues: increasing urbanisation, economic displacement, political disruption, climate change, natural disasters, and deforestation. Data gathered from over one hundred sources is geocoded, processed through a programming language, and presented visually by a rotating globe that translates statistics into maps, texts, and trajectories as it orbits the space.
Recently updated, 'EXIT' was universally acclaimed when it was first exhibited at the Palais de Tokyo to coincide with the COP21 United Nations Climate Change Conference. Little more than a year later, with the escalating refugee and migration crises and the Paris Agreement in doubt, 'EXIT' is a timely reflection on many of the most important challenges we collectively face. This is a global forecast that Australians cannot afford to miss.
Australian premiere presented in association with Sydney Festival and major sponsors the City of Sydney. 'EXIT' will also be exhibited at the Ian Potter Museum of Art at the University of Melbourne in 2017.
Artists
Paul Virilio
Diller Scofidio + Renfro
Laura Kurgan
Mark Hansen
Ben Rubin
Gerard Pietrusko
Stewart Smith
EXIT 2008–15.
Installation view, UNSW Galleries, 2017.
Collection Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris © Diller Scofidio + Renfro, Mark Hansen, Laura Kurgan & Ben Rubin, in collaboration w/ Robert Gerard Pietrusko & Stewart Smith. Photograph: Silversalt Photography
EXIT 2008–15.
Installation view, UNSW Galleries, 2017.
Collection Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris © Diller Scofidio + Renfro, Mark Hansen, Laura Kurgan & Ben Rubin, in collaboration w/ Robert Gerard Pietrusko & Stewart Smith. Photograph: Silversalt Photography
EXIT 2008–15.
Installation view, UNSW Galleries, 2017.
Collection Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris © Diller Scofidio + Renfro, Mark Hansen, Laura Kurgan & Ben Rubin, in collaboration w/ Robert Gerard Pietrusko & Stewart Smith. Photograph: Silversalt Photography
EXIT 2008–15.
Installation view, UNSW Galleries, 2017.
Collection Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris © Diller Scofidio + Renfro, Mark Hansen, Laura Kurgan & Ben Rubin, in collaboration w/ Robert Gerard Pietrusko & Stewart Smith. Photograph: Silversalt Photography
EXIT 2008–15.
Installation view, UNSW Galleries, 2017.
Collection Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris © Diller Scofidio + Renfro, Mark Hansen, Laura Kurgan & Ben Rubin, in collaboration w/ Robert Gerard Pietrusko & Stewart Smith. Photograph: Silversalt Photography
EXIT 2008–15.
Installation view, UNSW Galleries, 2017.
Collection Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris © Diller Scofidio + Renfro, Mark Hansen, Laura Kurgan & Ben Rubin, in collaboration w/ Robert Gerard Pietrusko & Stewart Smith. Photograph: Silversalt Photography
Acknowledgements
Commissioned by the Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, Paris, 'EXIT' is based on an idea by Paul Virilio, and created by Diller Scofidio + Renfro with Laura Kurgan, Mark Hansen, Ben Rubin in collaboration with Robert Gerard Pietrusko, Stewart Smith.
Image: 'EXIT' 2008–15. Installation view. Collection Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris © Diller Scofidio + Renfro, Mark Hansen, Laura Kurgan & Ben Rubin, in collaboration w/ Robert Gerard Pietrusko & Stewart Smith. Photograph: Luc Boegly