SUZANNE LACY

The End of the World

Luigi Pecci Centre for Contemporary Art, Prato, Italy (2016-17) 

Featuring De Tu Puño by Suzanne Lacy

The End of the World, curated by director Fabio Cavallucci, explores the works of over 50 international artists spanning the entire exhibition area of the museum as a kind of exercise of distance which incited the viewer to take a look at their present from a great distance. Along the way the audience experienced the feeling of being projected thousands of light years away to view the current world as if it were a fossil, geological eras from the present time, resulting in a feeling of being suspended in a limbo between a now distant past and a still distant future. 

Throughout the exhibition, many expressions and artistic languages interconnected: music, theatre, cinema, architecture and dance represented not just as side events but as integral moments of the show, helping to build an immersive and captivating narrative.

 The exhibition 'The End of the World' is accompanied by a catalogue published in two languages, Italian and English, as well as a series of conferences and debates which will develop the various themes explored in the exhibition including scientific, philosophical and literary aspects, from more recent theories of physics to the prehistoric, and from science fiction to ecology and sustainability.