Hito Steyerl
Factory of the Sun
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
250 South Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90012
February 21 – September 12, 2016
Now on view at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Factory of the Sun is an immersive video installation by Hito Steyerl. First exhibited in the German Pavilion at the 2015 Venice Biennale, Factory of the Sun depicts a world in which the forced movements of workers in a motion capture studio are turned into artificial sunlight. This surreal arrangement is revealed by narrator Yulia to be a video game. Incorporating found video and computer-generated imagery, Steyerl illustrates a scenario inspired by the aesthetics of MMD and the biography of the game’s real programmer and narrator, in which people killed in the future for their participation in protests travel back in time, lending their movements and voices to a cast of animated characters.
Installation view, Hito Steyerl: Factory of the Sun, on view February 21 – September 12, 2016 at MOCA Grand Avenue, Los Angeles. Photograph by Justin Lubliner. Courtesy of The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.
Installation view, Hito Steyerl: Factory of the Sun, on view February 21 – September 12, 2016 at MOCA Grand Avenue, Los Angeles. Photograph by Justin Lubliner. Courtesy of The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.
Installation view, Hito Steyerl: Factory of the Sun, on view February 21 – September 12, 2016 at MOCA Grand Avenue, Los Angeles. Photograph by Justin Lubliner. Courtesy of The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.
