March 2-6, 2022
Futurology and urban studies claim that the future is not in walking cities and levitating houses — their time is left in the 20th century. The future has already arrived, you just need to see the image of perfection and adapt reality to it. Russian urbanist Grigory Revzin predicts in the text “City of the Future” that houses will turn into vertical parks with trees on balconies, and it will be possible to merge with the forest without leaving the house, the city will turn into a hybrid space where the house will be both a gym, an office and a park, and after the Internet of things, the Internet of people will come — and the data will merge into a single digital biome.
Beauty, love, peace, time, sky are just a set of data to model. The globe was at one time a model for measuring distance, a clock helped keep track of time. The man of the future will continue to measure the real and unreal world with great diligence. The exhibition sees the future as a model convenient for measuring the life of the planet, city, and man. Artists here are close to futurologists. In an endless process of imagination, they generate new images — images of the future. The exhibition presents their daydreaming — a vision of the future, in which information has taken on a new form and replaced real life. And the main question is where is the border between the real and the unreal? Real world, me, city or not? As a starting point, the artists were offered an essay by Danish Environment Minister Ida Auken about the world of the future, which was read for the first time at the World Economic Forum in Davos. The sharing economy, the merging of online and offline, hybrid spaces, terraforming, the fragility of the digital world, and the power of love are the topics covered in the works of the exhibition.
D3mark0, Lilgoshschik, Oleg Ditz, Alexander Zakirov, Igor Lazarev, Danil Titov, Ivan Chetverikov, Yulia Shalygina