Digital and video art filled the elegant neoclassical rooms of the 18th century Dover House with Harun Farocki’s video and digital art installations shown alongside the work of Hito Steyerl, the two reflecting on the wider world, a world beyond the comfort of Mayfair, London and the United Kingdom where war and peace exist side by side, as does wealth and poverty, alongside a myriad of different religions and beliefs and where creativity flourishes in many different places in the last exhibition at Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac’s before the shutters came down with the challenging new modern world of coronavirus.
Illustrating that 21st century digital work can exist inside well-proportioned, elegant, flexible 18th century spaces, the exhibition showed how art can move across cultures, times and different parts of the world with a wide variety of films and installations for the viewer to experience and reflect on, some going back many years into the Charlie Chaplin era of the 20th century.