Press Release
Hito Steyerl’s site-specific exhibition project The Island immerses Osservatorio in a flow of multiple interwoven storylines united by the recurring motif of flooding, addressing urgent topics such as the rise of authoritarian tendencies driven by emerging technologies like AI, the climate crisis, and the growing political pressures on scientific research.
Artist, essayist, filmmaker, and lecturer, Steyerl has developed an experimental practice grounded in critical research into contemporary socio-political and cultural debates, tracing hidden connections among power, emerging technologies, Internet cultures, and global capitalism. With a distinctive mix of satire and critique, since the early 2010s Steyerl’s work is situated at the intersection of documentary film and experimental cinema, often extending these forms into the spatial and digital realms.
