Artists Construct a 10-Billion Person Megalopolis in ‘Views of Planet City’
At SCI-Arc, the group exhibition confronts climate change with radical imaginations of a sustainable future.
SCI-Arc Gallery presents Views of Planet City, a group exhibition inspired by artist, architect and curator Liam Young’s ongoing, environmental art project that began in 2021. Planet City proposes a radical rethinking of a sustainable world where humanity agrees to live amongst one another in a single, massive city, surrendering most of the Earth to a grand project of restoration.
Alongside Young, Jennifer Chen, John Cooper, Damjan Jovanovic and Angelica Lorenzi construct alternative visions of this shared future. The works are not limited to images and films of the hyperdense megalopolis, displaying artifacts that emerge from it: pixel-perfect satellite images, costumes and masks born out of a fusion of global cultures, ceremonial relics of nature and a video game simulation that probes into the rehabilitative potential of AI. Together, they weave familiar, contemporary technologies with an optimistic counterimage of urban sprawl. In addition to the featured artworks, the exhibition spotlights the research materials that drive these reimaginations of a planetary fate.
Presented as a part of Getty’s PST ART 2024, the show is one of over 70 exhibitions and programs that explore the intersection of art and science. Reassembling our current ways of knowing – production, recycling, agriculture, art and social systems – the exhibition confronts the climate crisis with a much-needed cultural shift, making room for brighter, more collaborative tomorrow.
Views of Planet City is now on view through February 14, 2025.
SCI-Arc Gallery
960 East 3rd Street,
Los Angeles, CA 90013
