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All the works included date from 2000 or thereafter, with the exception of the selection of 27 photographs from Manfred Willmann's celebrated oeuvre Das Land. His photographic observations on the slow pace of change in the Austrian countryside and the lives of those who stay and resist the temptation to move to the city make us reflect on memory and progress, a focus of ACF's activities. While it may seem entirely coincidental that the photograph selected for the cover of the exhibition catalogue dates from 1984, it is indeed the tension between the fragile beauty of this picture (touching on the delicate relationship between mankind and nature) and the dire future described by George Orwell in his masterpiece that is at the heart of this exhibition, which is curated by Christoph Thun-Hohenstein, director of the Austrian Cultural Forum New York.