The Overview Effect: A Different Way of Seeing Earth
The Overview Effect, curated by Anna Carnick for The Foundry at Wilhelm Hallen during Berlin Art Week, gathers approximately twenty international designers and artists around the concept of reconnection with Earth and each other. Inspired by the phenomenon experienced by astronauts viewing the planet from space—notably the 1968 Earthrise photograph by William Anders—the exhibition translates this shift in perspective into a terrestrial context. The 1,680-square-metre venue, a historic industrial brick hall, becomes a contemplative space divided by semi-transparent fabric sheets that obscure and reveal artworks through fragmented sightlines, encouraging slow viewing and discovery. Each participant, working across diverse materials, scales, and techniques, addresses how we might understand our planetary interdependence without leaving Earth. The spatial design mirrors the exhibition’s thematic concerns: the temporary interventions within the industrial architecture create what the curator describes as a rupture between permanence and transience, inviting visitors to move through the space as if navigating between perspectives.
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