AREBYTE GALLERY
FUTURES PAST
Art direction
Mimicking archaeological digs and touristic attractions of historical sites, the exhibition presents digital works that encapsulate ideas around the past, present and future: amalgamated beings, mixed histories, clashes of culture, and worlds within worlds.
The works posit radical views of the future that don’t rely on the retelling of big tech fantasies of power, control and subversion that are built from colonial imaginings, and capitalist, patriarchal and imperialist ideologies, but instead emancipate us from the complacency we have been acclimated to through “de-inventing” the future and returning to the present as a “fraught and fragmentary site of struggle.”
︎︎︎ With Studio Basic
︎︎︎ Interview with Kumbirai Makumbe
The works posit radical views of the future that don’t rely on the retelling of big tech fantasies of power, control and subversion that are built from colonial imaginings, and capitalist, patriarchal and imperialist ideologies, but instead emancipate us from the complacency we have been acclimated to through “de-inventing” the future and returning to the present as a “fraught and fragmentary site of struggle.”
︎︎︎ With Studio Basic
︎︎︎ Interview with Kumbirai Makumbe
