Composed of photographs taken by Gursky in 1994, the exhibition forms an impersonal travelogue of industrial and post-industrial spaces and sites.
Observing the spaces of global money and information transfer, Gursky's Hong Kong Stock Exchange Diptych continues a survey of the freneticism of muti-national workspace begun in his previous works, Tokyo Borse and American Stock Exchange. The viewer is confronted with the luminous details of a vast site where human and computer exists as confidante. In the work titled Schiphol (airport), Gursky depicts a surburban industrial landcape through a view from an airport building. The industralised surburbs are also depicted in Shatin Race Track. Together they bridge his past two themes: the landscape of industrious men; "homo laborans" and the leisurely activities of "homo ludens". From his latest abstract image series, an image of an immense radiant ceiling beckons the viewer into a world of infinite space and time.
In these photographs, Gursky transforms the indifference of an even more abstracted world into the lyricism of a new vernacular.