Serpentine Gallery hosts immersive exhibition Third World: The Bottom Dimension
An immersive exhibition and experimental video game all in one.
This summer the Serpentine Gallery in Kensington Gardens is hosting the work of emerging Brazilian artist, Gabriel Massan, until October 23.
Third World: The Bottom Dimension, offers audiences the opportunity to play the game surrounded by site-specific set design, sculptures, sound and films.
Gabriel Massan said: “I want to create the experience of walking through possibilities and memories of life and narrative. A work that people can walk inside.
“People are too invested in the idea of systems being something that are impossible to redefine.
“Third World represents a stratified structure: which level of the world are you on?
“I call attention to this structure: Third World? A burden that was given.
“These divisions of the world and these terms were based on human concepts that define and decentre the larger part of the world as ‘periphery’.”
The game and surrounding settings explore themes of healing, ecological awareness and agency in an effort to challenge people’s understanding of how we live.
Players can record ‘memories’ of their own actions as they play the game, take a snapshot to build a public archive of multiple perspectives and actions.
Pictures: Screens and sculptures at Third World: The Bottom Dimension Picture: Third World: The Bottom Dimension Gabriel Massan