Exhibition “Wind under the Wings,” UNICORN, center for art, Beijing, China, 2017

You Really Know Where You Are. For the First Time in History
第一次在历史上，你找到自己的位置

开幕式Opening：2017.07.15 pm16:00
展览时间Exhibition duration：2017.07.15 — 2017.08.27

艺术家Artists：Chen Wei 陈维，Li Zhende 李政德, Chen Tianzhuo, Sebastian Alonso Bessonart, Lin Ke, Ada Sokol, Camille Ayme, Ju Anqi, Cristina Tufiño, Laurent Segretier, Alessandro Rolandi, Jason Mena, Lena Tsibizova, Robbin Heyker, Olga Rodina, Anastasia Soboleva, Oliver Haidutschek, Christopher Rey Perez, Ophelia s. Chan, Tong Kunniao, Troika Union, Ma Yongfeng马永峰, FALA Atelier, Andreas Angelidakis, Garcia Frankowski ,Yang Yuanyuan杨圆圆，Guido Tesio

A hundred years after Aldous Huxley was hired as the schoolmaster at Eton (where George Orwell was his pupil), the exhibition borrows its title from ‘A Brave New World’, one of the most important narratives of biotechnological determinism in the 20th century. ‘You Really know where you are. For the First time in history’ focuses on the point where media, identity, idealism and utopia converge. Images of fantasy and realism are embedded in dialogues and struggles that reveal the frugality of utopias and the surreal nature of current events.

Film, photography, installation, moving images, sculpture, poetry, and painting render the strategies, visions, jokes, statements, and narratives of visions of alternative, parallel, and contradictory futures and the symbols, emblems, and interpretations deployed through art practices around the world today.


The exhibition presents a new chapter in the unfolding plot of a story of fantastic proportions, summoning both physical and digital avatars to declare that "You really know where you are. For the First time in History."

One hundred years after Aldous Huxley was hired as a teacher at Eton (where George Orwell was his student), the exhibition borrows its title from Brave New World, one of the most important stories of biotechnological determinism in the 20th century. "You really know where you are. For the First Time in History" focuses on the convergence of media, identity, idealism, and utopia. Images of fantasy and realism are woven into dialogues and struggles that reveal the frugality of utopias and the surreal nature of current events. Film, photography, installations, moving images, sculpture, poetry, and painting give account of the strategies, visions, jokes, statements, and narratives of visions of alternative, parallel, and contradictory futures and the symbols, emblems, and interpretations deployed through artistic practices around the world today. The exhibition presents a new chapter in the ongoing plot of a story of fantastic proportions, invoking both physical and digital avatars to declare that "you really know where you are." For the first time in history.

One hundred years after Aldous Huxley was appointed headmaster at Eton (where George Orwell was one of his pupils), this exhibition takes its name from Brave New World——one of the most important narratives of biotechnological determinism in the twentieth century. "For the first time in history, you have found your place." Focusing on the fusion of media, identity, idealism, and utopia, fantasy and reality intertwine in images, revealing the simplicity of utopia and the surreal nature of current events.

Through film, photography, installation, video, sculpture, poetry, and painting, the exhibition presents different strategies, perspectives, jokes, statements, and narratives representing alternating, parallel, and contradictory visions of the future, as well as various symbols, signs, and interpretations that appear in contemporary art practices around the world.

This exhibition opens a new chapter in utopian storytelling, bringing together physical and virtual avatars to proclaim that "for the first time in history, you have found your place."

UNICORN Center For Art
Chief Advisor: Zhijie QIU
Producer: Ga YANG
Art Director: Manman CHENG

Venue: Unicorn Center for Art
Address: Chaoyang District, Beijing Caochangdi No1 Red A1