Nestled in between two larger profile exhibitions at UCCA is 'The World in 2015', a group exhibition of younger Chinese and international artists anchored around their thoughts, concerns, hopes, impressions, expressions, feelings "on what it's like to be alive in the world today". The exhibition title -- "The World in 2015" -- is lifted from a yearly The Economist article, in which the magazine prognosticates political and economic trends in the new year. The gesture here, for the curators, is to assign to the artists to a similar stance in the present, looking towards what's coming next. Hey, what you got going on for the two-oh-one-five? I'm thinking this might be the year I crack and finally get a Playstation. Them things are looking real sick these days. Graphics look amazing. Also, maybe I'll try quitting smoking with the whole "vape" thing. Does that work? Also, war and oppression are lame. 'The World in 2015' is an all too brief but slyly compelling melange of personal and worldly current and future concerns from a fairly diverse mish-mash of artists. Video, photography, and figurative works are shuffled together in disjointed and incommensurable impulses towards expressing the personal and comprehending the global. Want to have a look? Personal experience, histories, power, society, industry, politics, money, inequality, technology and beauty, click here for "The World in 2015". * Curators: Philip Tinari, Felicia Chen Artists: Jonathas de Andrade, Neil Beloufa, Chen Shaoxiong, Cui Jie, Aslan Gaisumov, GCC, Hu Xiangqian, Koo Jeong A, Liu Ye, Noah Sheldon, Zhang Xiao. *** 'The World in 2015' is on until March 22 and UCCA.
