FRANKFURT.- With the works of Cao Fei, Richard Mosse and Paulo Nazareth, the exhibition Extreme. Nomads focuses on different aspects of contemporary forms of nomadic existence and addresses the dissolution of boundaries in politics, economy, society, and culture. The artists from three continents are not only investigating the individual, social and political extremes that are a result of globalisation, but also their own artistic strategies prove to be expanding boundaries.

In her works, Cao Fei (*1978 CN) processes the profound social changes that occurred in her homeland China as a result of rapid economic growth and globalisation. Inspired by the US-American zombie films, the artist presents her work "Haze and Fog". This is a fictional portrayal of a service-based society that is suffering from a loss of identity and transforms one of the newly built residential areas of Beijing into a hoard of restless zombies.

Richard Mosse‘s (*1980 IE/US) works are a cross between artistic production and journalistic reportage.Throughout his work, Mosse subverts weaponized photographic technologies, using them to confront the viewer and refresh documentary forms. His recent works, "Incoming" and the photographic series "The Castle", are made in response to the mass migration across Europe, the Middle East and North Africa, the largest displacement of people since the Second World War. The film installation "Incoming", that was produced in collaboration with composer Ben Frost and cinematographer Trevor Tweeten, documents the journeys of refugees into Europe, while "The Castle" documents the condition of the camps and staging sites in which they reside. Mosse has employed a military-grade thermographic surveillance camera that can detect human body heat from a distance of 30.3 km.

Paulo Nazareth (*1977 BR) declared walking as the starting point of his artistic approach. Taking his heritage as a Brazilian with Indigenous and African roots as a theme, he crosses entire countries and continents on foot. Nazareth’s works tell a tale of his encounters and many experiences from his travels; of communication and resistance, of colonial history and the presence of globalism. They weave a web between individuals, communities and countries beyond their national borders.