Until the 5th of March Hauser & Wirth's Piccadilly gallery plays host to Diana Thater's video instillation entitled 'Chernobyl'. The piece continues to convey Thater's fascination with the relationship between culture and nature, depicting the post-nuclear 'Zone of Alienation' in Chernobyl. The oxymoronic landscape hosts both decaying manufactured structures and the thriving rare and endangered Przewalki's Horse; illustrating an area where man-made has perished, and the organic has flourished. Thater's instillation overlaps the two footages by use of projectors, submersing the audience into a somewhat contrasting world to what they are familiar, pushing the question to how something beautiful can come of a man-made catastrophe.
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