This exhibition took place at our previous [Location closed] Eastcastle St location.
Pilar Corrias Gallery is proud to present the first solo exhibition in the UK by American artist Ian Cheng. The exhibition premieres the new live simulation Emissary Forks At Perfection, the second episode in a series of works dedicated to the history of cognitive evolution, past and future.
Volcano to crater lake: what was once a geological disaster zone has grown into a fertile
Emissary Forks At Perfection is composed of two contradictory forms: a simulation of a
Ian Cheng (b. 1984, Los Angeles) lives and works in New York. Previous solo exhibitions include: Something Thinking of You: Live Stream 1 – 31 August, vdrome.org (2015); Emissary in the Squat of Gods, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin (2015); Emissary in the Squat of Gods, Frieze NY, Standard (Oslo), New York (2015); Real Humans, with Wu Tsang, Jordan Wolfson, Kunsthalle Dusseldorf, Dusseldorf (2015); Ian Cheng, La Triennale di Milano, Milan (2014); Baby Ft. Bali, Standard (Oslo), Oslo (2013); Entropy Wrangler, Off Vendome, Dusseldorf (2013); Too Humans All Too Humans, The Vanity, Los Angeles (2013); This Papaya Tastes Perfect, Formalist Sidewalk Poetry Club, Miami Beach (2011). Recent group exhibitions include: Co-Workers, Musee d’Moderne Paris, Paris (2015); Co-Workers: Beyond Disaster, Bétonsalon, Paris (2015); Screen Play, Albright-Knox, Buffalo (2015); Open Source, Hetzler, Berlin (2015); Taipei Biennial – The Great Acceleration, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei (2014); Phantom Limbs, Pilar Corrias Gallery, London (2014); chatbots, tongues, denial, and various other abstractions, Bortolami, New York (2014); 12th Lyon Biennial: Meanwhile...Suddenly and Then, Le Sucriere, Lyon (2013); Love of Technology, Museum of Contemporary Art Miami, Miami (2013); Freak Out, Greene Naftali Gallery, New York (2013); ProBio, EXPO 1, MoMA PS1, New York (2013); A Disagreeable Object, Sculpture Center, New York (2012).
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