The future past is the imagined future of past religious, political, philosophical, scientific, and artistic movements. Ideologies of the world around us were conceived by a future past. These have been used to imagine the emancipation of humanity.Today the future evokes feelings of imminent catastrophe and the dark idea of ​​extinction. The spirit of the times is eschatological. Humanity as a species is destined of being-toward-death. Art is the design of future modes and, as such, provides new ways of being, seeing, interpreting reality, innovating artistic procedures, and thinking about humanity from a critical and creative perspective. Artists can bring light because art is the exercise of thinking about different ways of being and experiencing the future. Art gives us the space to talk about time, whether it exists or not. This exhibition explores different angles on life on a critically damaged planet around the notions of Social (Gabriel Chaile and Agustina Woodgate), Nature (Matías Duville), Language (Alejandra Seeber), and Sexuality (Amalia Ulman and Marcelo Pombo). The strategies are heterogeneous: humor, criticism, irony, joy, or allusion. The articulation between the media, the materials, the procedure, and the theme are singular, none supposes a direct relationship between the representational and the political. Art could be understood as a time granted by the passing of the last god. In this sense, artists can shape a new philosophy for collaborative survival because art is the opening on the horizon of possible worlds.

https://www.barro.cc/en/exhibitions/1228/futurity-barro-new-york