The exhibition also features two new works from the artist’s ongoing ‘chrono capsules’ project, in which he returns to the sites of his earlier photographs to document and reinterpret the passage of time and the transformation of place - made possible by the enhanced capabilities of digital recording technology. In a new image of the Aletsch Glacier in the Swiss Alps, originally captured in 1993, Gursky powerfully reveals the impact of climate change through the glacier’s visibly reduced expanse.

Two other recent works, photographed within a German steel manufacturing plant, should be interpreted within the broader context of systemic transformations and associated crises. Overcapacity, the influx of low-cost imports, and the shift toward environmentally sustainable steel production are posing significant challenges to industrial infrastructures all over the world.