Artists: AES+F, Jananne Al-Ani, Gianfranco Baruchello, Elisabetta Benassi, Rossella Biscotti, Mohamed Bourouissa, Chen Chieh-Jen, Simon Denny, Rä di Martino, Harun Farocki, Omer Fast, Claire Fontaine, Carlos Garaicoa, Dora García, Jenny Holzer, Gülsün Karamustafa, Rem Koolhaas, H.H. Lim, Lin Yilin, Jill Magid, Trevor Paglen, Berna Reale, Shen Ruijun, Mikhael Subotzky, Superstudio and Zhang Yue
Installation view Please come back; .
Courtesy of the artist, Galerie Buchholz Berlin/Cologne/New York and Petzel Gallery, T293, Michael Lett, Fine Arty, Sydney, Altman Siegel.
Installation view Please come back; .
Courtesy of the artist, Galerie Buchholz Berlin/Cologne/New York and Petzel Gallery, T293, Michael Lett, Fine Arty, Sydney, Altman Siegel.
Installation view Please come back; .
Courtesy of the artist, Galerie Buchholz Berlin/Cologne/New York and Petzel Gallery, T293, Michael Lett, Fine Arty, Sydney, Altman Siegel.
Installation view Please come back; .
Courtesy of the artist, Galerie Buchholz Berlin/Cologne/New York and Petzel Gallery, T293, Michael Lett, Fine Arty, Sydney, Altman Siegel.
Installation view Please come back; .
Courtesy of the artist, Galerie Buchholz Berlin/Cologne/New York and Petzel Gallery, T293, Michael Lett, Fine Arty, Sydney, Altman Siegel.
Installation view Please come back; .
Courtesy of the artist, Galerie Buchholz Berlin/Cologne/New York and Petzel Gallery, T293, Michael Lett, Fine Arty, Sydney, Altman Siegel.
Installation view Please come back; .
Courtesy of the artist, Galerie Buchholz Berlin/Cologne/New York and Petzel Gallery, T293, Michael Lett, Fine Arty, Sydney, Altman Siegel.
MAXXI, Rome, 2017:
Now that global communication also means global control, that the sharing born out of the internet and social networks as dismantled our privacy, the word prison takes on very new meanings. With the exhibition PLEASE COME BACK. The world as prison?, curated by Hou Hanru and Luigia Lonardelli, 26 artists through 50 works will be shedding light on the problems relating to the control typical of contemporary society.
The exponential development of digital technologies, the advent of the social networks, the use of Big Data, have progressively and inexorably changed our society which is witnessing the collapse of the philosophies of social and urban sharing and the establishment of new regimes that in the name of security are stripping us, with our consent, of every intimate and personal space. PLEASE COME BACK starts out from these considerations and seeks an answer to the question: what would we like back in our lives from the paradise lost of the modern age?
