The inimitable Steve Dietz continues to amaze us.  His newest project, Feedforward. The Angel of History, addresses the current moment in history where the wreckage of political conflict and economic inequality is piling up, while globalized forces—largely enabled by the “progress” of digital information technologies—inexorably feed us forward. The exhibition title references Paul Klee’s painting “Angelus Novus,” which Walter Benjamin famously interpreted as an “angel of history” transfixed by the wreckage of the past that is piling up in front of him while being propelled backwards into the uncertain future by a storm from paradise (progress).

Co-curated with Chritiane Paul,the exhibition opens this week at LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial, Gijón, Spain.