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A preacher speaks to his audience in São Paulo, March 2022. "THE WORLD TODAY by Hugo Faz. Stanley Kubrick's 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey, whose embrace of art and science-fiction still generates instigating questions about human evolution, was the starting point of inspiration for Hugo Faz's vision of The World Today. If the black monolith once transformed our ancestors, making them intelligent but perhaps also competitive or aggressive, it is invited back after many ages to be a guiding thread for witnessing contemporary society and to help with asking unsettling questions. Does the current complexity of human relations, urban development and dynamics actually make for better living?...View all