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AA|LA is pleased to present Unbearable Infinite, an exhibition examining the conceptual overlap of printmaker Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1778) and New Zealand-based video artist Gregory Bennett. The exhibition features five works from Piranesi’s series Carceri d’Invenzione (Imaginary Prisons) alongside three of Bennett’s video artworks. Though separated by over three centuries, together, the imagined realities of Piranesi and Bennett bridge anxieties of past and present.

Unbearable Infinite presents parallel renderings of imagined and monumental prison structures. Ideologically, these …