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Image: ©DavidStephenson_20120701_Hong Kong_VictoriaPeak

 

David Stephenson, 15th Anniversary celebration of reunification with China, Victoria Peak, Hong Kong 2012, archival pigment print print, 112 x 140 cm. Courtesy the artist.

In even the most perfunctory effort to describe the characteristic phenomena of our age, we are struck time and again by how much the world is out of joint – by the incredible disparities in the circumstances and conditions of different parts of society and different parts of the world, in people’s lived experience and what they can possibly hope for.

Curated by Terence Maloon, the works in this exhibition by Nick Danziger, Merilyn Fairskye, Ciara O’Brien, David Stephenson, Martin Walch, Anne Zahalka set up conflicting perspectives that highlight some of the more troubling aspects of our globalised age.