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Another World

The students in this Collection present speculative and critical imagined worlds – from the ideological perfection of utopias (no place) to the degradation and totalitarianism of dystopias (bad place) and everything in between.

An aerial view of a computer-generated city street and high rise buildings, all in white, except one in orange and red, consisting of open plan floors with no roofs or walls. A whale swims above the buildings.

A moving animated image of a figure in a black hat throwing a pack of playing cards between hands, standing in a blue circle.

A long horizontal artwork featuring various fallen and standing shapes in uniform colours, progressing from clay red on the left to slate grey on the right.

A row of three heads wearing different brightly coloured wigs and make-up. They are looking straight ahead and appear to be talking.

An image of a hairless, all-white female figure, loosely wrapped in a green net consisting of long strands and floating in what looks like deep ocean, next to a large, crumbling deep blue structure.

A photograph of a life-size mask of a head with large, pointed ears, and a semi-reclined headless figure on a table. A neon sign in the background, which reads ‘youphoria’, casts a green light over the objects.

Sara Sarshar / y0uph0ria_

A moving image of a beige-coloured face with a small black beard, appearing to be rising out of blue water and pulsating.

An image of a film studio-type space with vehicles on the right, a series of screens suspended from the metal framework in the ceiling in the middle, and an empty director’s chair in the foreground.

Qianru Niu

Two images side by the side. The one to the left shows a 3D roofless model of a multi-bedroomed building with a small roof garden. The image on the right is a black and white scale plan of the same building.

Photograph of two rectangular abstract paintings, on what looks like cloth, hanging on a wall, side by side, one in shades of blue, pink and black, the other in fiery orange, red, green and black.

Photograph of a man angled away from the camera, crouched down on one knee on a white background, wearing a harness with a blue and white spine-like addition, which trails to the ground.

Image of a mannequin-like figure in a cave, bent over and partially covered by a large dark cloth which also covers the sandy-looking ground. Bubbles containing foetus-like figures float above.

Photograph of a woman sat on the floor in front of a green curtain, next to an arranged collection of tools and objects with screens, wearing a contraption on her head which includes a clear screen over her eyes.

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