until Sunday August 07 2016

UCCA
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798 Art District, No. 4 Jiuxiangiao Lu
100015 Beijing
China

Gerrard’s first exhibition in China features three recent, major works.

Farm (Pryor Creek, Oklahoma) 2015 is a digitally modeled composite of one of Google’s server centers in Oklahoma. Exercise (Dunhuang) 2014, a reconstruction based on satellite imagery of a system of roadways located mysteriously in the middle of the Gobi Desert, which then becomes the site for a lengthy elimination game played among avatars modeled on factory workers in Guangzhou. Solar Reserve (Tonopah, Nevada) 2014 is a painstakingly accurate, virtual portrait of a functioning solar farm, widely admired for its dramatic presentation in the Lincoln Center Plaza, New York, in late 2014. Together the works raise important questions not only about key issues of the present historical moment, but about the very nature of the work of art in the digital age.