Salon for a Speculative Future: How to be in the Future?

10 May-9 Jun 2024

PV 10 May 2024, 6-9pm

Western Dream 4, 2017, Film Still. Credit: Lisa Chang Lee

Overview

Aideen Barry, Quilla Constance, Lisa Chang Lee, Kate Fahey, Young In Hong, Evy Jokhova, Huma Mulji, Koushna Navabi, Monika Oechsler, Rebecca Scott, Jo Stockham.

Curated by Monika Oechsler with Jo Stockham.

How to be in the Future? remains a pertinent question for our times and for the group of international artists from diverse cultures and backgrounds exhibiting here. Postulating hope for a better future Rebecca Solnit (in an article in the Guardian, 2016): wrote “Hope is an embrace of the unknown”. Living in times of unprecedented change, uncertainty, she says, has “the power to influence the future”. Taking inspiration from the ‘future thinking’ of speculative fiction and looking at a wide range of fields from science and technology to spiritual, ecological and socio-economic issues, the exhibition highlights multiplicities and the complex interplay at work in global dynamics. The works, individually and collectively, draw on associations from different subjectivities and contested \histories facilitating a space for contemplation and the discussion of positive futures.

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Salon for a Speculative Future: How to be in the Future? at Vestry St - Cross Lane Projects
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