Emilio Chapela: "No Pain, No Brain"

 Are you ready to invent the future?  Think big and tell us how you would create it! We are looking for game-changing and impactful ideas that have the potential to change the way we live, work, and communicate with each other.

28 April 2016 - 18 June 2016

The title of Emilio Chapela’s exhibition Man is the Measure takes its name from a phrase by Protagoras (5th Century BCE), the Greek pre-Socratic philosopher who said, “man is the measure of all things”. The show contains a number of works that deal with the issue of boundaries and borders and maps from a h...

26 March 2014 - 10 May 2014

Emilio Chapela - A Measure for Some Things

Recently, I saw a documentary in which the size of a Brazilian ant was described  as ‘somewhere between big and enormous’. I was puzzled because I was unable to judge its size. After all, they were just talking about a small ant. We don’...