| Title | The Solar Grid (excerpt) |
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| Contributor | Ganzeer (author) |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.53288/0404.1.17 |
| Landing page | https://punctumbooks.com/titles/solarities-elemental-encounters-and-refractions/ |
| License | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ |
| Copyright | Ganzeer |
| Publisher | punctum books |
| Published on | 2023-11-22 |
| Long abstract | 949 years after a catastrophic global flood, night has been consigned to legend by way of THE SOLAR GRID, a vast network of satellites that keeps the world basked in eternal daylight. The purpose of which is to counteract the effects of the flood, and power solar factories scattered across the globe to ceaselessly produce goods intended for export to Mars, where humanity's most fortunate has successfully relocated to. This is the setting within which this elaborate work of science fiction is set, where themes of post-colonialism, consumerism, capitalism, and race-relations are explored on a planet-faring scale |
| Page range | pp. 191–205 |
| Print length | 15 pages |
| Language | English (Original) |
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Described as a “chameleon” by Carlo McCormick in the New York Times, Ganzeer operates seamlessly between art, design, and storytelling, creating what he has coined: Concept Pop. His medium of choice according to Artforum is “a little bit of everything: stencils, murals, paintings, pamphlets, comics, installations, and graphic design.” With over forty exhibitions to his name, Ganzeer’s work has been seen in a wide variety of art galleries, impromptu spaces, alleyways, and major museums around the world, such as The Brooklyn Museum in New York, The Palace of the Arts in Cairo, the Moody Center for the Arts in Houston, and the V&A in London. Ganzeer’s current projects include a short story collection titled Times New Human and a sci-fi graphic novel titled The Solar Grid, an elaborate work-in-progress which has awarded him a Global Thinker Award from Foreign Policy in 2016. He has been an artist-in-residence in Germany, Poland, Jordan, the Netherlands, and Finland, and has lived extensively in Cairo, New York, Los Angeles, Denver, and finally Houston — where he is now based.