![]() It is divided into eight thematic sections. “Hive” explores the intricate urban networks that have formed in today’s world, through works like Pablo Lopéz Luz’s panorama of Mexico City and Phillippe Chancel’s snapshot of Dubai’s skyline. “Alonetogether” looks at the maintenance of social relationships, with works like Lauren Greenfield’s intimate portraits of high school students and Hong Hao’ssolitary inventories of products. “Flow” takes as its subject the movement of peoples, goods, and ideas, such as the carpoolers in Alejandro Cartanega’soverhead photographs, or the massed shipping containers in those of Alex Maclean. “Persuasion” investigates the strategies we use to convince others and ourselves works like Natan Dvir’s Desigual and Sato Shintaro’s Dotonbori, Chuo Ward, Osaka/ Omori-Kita, Ota Ward, Tokyo testify to the ways in which the language of persuasion has permeated everyday life. “Control” examines humanity’s ability to create order, resolve disputes, and organize political and social structures, featuring such imagesas Lynne Cohen’s police school classroom and Mitch Epstein’s massive industrial buildings. “Rupture” focuses on the breakdown of this order and the conflicts between individuals and collectives photos from Michael Wolf’s “Tokyo Compression” series, for example, show subway passengers flattened claustrophobically against the train win dows, while Xing Danwen’s disCONNEXIONdemonstrates the massive changes that human development has caused to the environment. “Escape” follows the ascent of recreational culture Reiner Riedler’stropical getaways and Massimo Vitali’s crowded beaches give a sense of the ways that we seek freedom from the given. “Civilization” offers viewers a journey through key aspects of large-scale, organized life in the 21st century. ![]() The exhibition is co-produced by the Foundation for the Exhibition of Photography, Minneapolis/New York/Paris/Lausanne, and the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Korea, Seoul. While acknowledging the efforts of individuals to shape the world around them, and the differences between and among cultures, the exhibition focuses specifically on the collective achievements-and tensions-thatnarratives of individualism and heterogeneity tend to obscure. The showforegrounds the development of the medium of photography and the unique ability of photographers to create a multifaceted portrait of the present era. “Civilization: The Way We Live Now” is curated by William A. The exhibition focuses on the development of human life on a global scale in the 21st century, and the patterns of behavior-collaboration and conflict, production and consumption-that now connect people to an unprecedented degree. ![]() From March 9 to May 19, 2019, the UCCA Center for Contemporary Art presents “Civilization: The Way We Live Now,” a monumental photography exhibition featuring over 250 artworks by more than 120 photographers from Asia, Australia, Europe, Africa, and the Americas.
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