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Carbon 12 is delighted to present the exhibition On a Boat, Looking to Land, a curated exhibition showing the new works of Gil Heitor Cortesão and Daniel Rich.

In Mike Davis’s 1990 book, City of Quartz, the first line of the prologue reads “The best place to view Los Angeles of the next millennium is from the ruins of its alternative future”. Referring to the crumbled remains of Llano del Rio, the socialist city settlement founded in 1914, and looking towards the newly built aircraft hangars designed to house the military’s latest bombers, the dichotomy is palpable. Two ideologies, still in …