![]() These artworks feature diverse voices and mediums: paintings speculate a post-apocalyptic school after the Chernobyl disaster photographs document the vulnerability of human life multi-channel videos connect planetary infrastructure, indigenous rituals and spiritual traditions a sound installation engages the history of factory laborers sculptures inspired by the immortal jellyfish and a Subterranean Museum of Eternity.Īt the Ural Optical and Mechanical Plant, the Main Project will occupy the 4th floor in the former optical production workshops projects of the Artist-in-Residence program will occupy the 2nd floor, along with 3 special projects and the Biennial Archive. The Main Project features more than 20 new commissions and over 90 works by 76 artists and collectives from 25 countries and regions. It proposes a radical re-imagination of life and death, and of our materialist pursuit of immortality, in order to open up possibilities for a multitude of futures. ![]() Entitled For a Multitude of Futures, the Main Project, curated by Xiaoyu Weng (Guggenheim Museum, New York), responds to this biennial’s theme of Immortality by investigating the evermore complex relationship between humanity and technology. The 5th Ural industrial Biennial opens on September 12 and will be on view through December 1, 2019.
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