Exit

Created in 2008, at the initiative of the Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain for the exhibition Native Land, Stop Eject, and inspired by an idea of the French philosopher and urbanist Paul Virilio, EXIT was conceived by the American artists and architects Diller Scofidio + Renfro in collaboration with artist-architect Laura Kurgan, statistician-artist Mark Hansen, with a core team of scientists from different disciplines. It is made up of a series of dynamic maps generated from statistical data. This immersive installation depicts human migrations and their primary causes in a 360° projection. The continual rotation of a globe around the room displays different migratory data visually, in the form of maps, texts, and routes using six different scenarios: Population Shifts: Cities; Remittances: Sending Money Home; Political Refugees and Forced Migration; RisingSeas, Sinking Cities; Natural Disasters; and Speechless and Deforestation. In 2015, to mark the United Nations climate conference (COP21) organized in Paris, the work was comprehensively updated, revealing the alarming evolution of data since its first presentation.