Suska Bastian, Caroline Bergonzi, Marco Colazzo, Maria David, Florian Ferrua, Camille Franch-Guerra, Dorian Teti, Anna Tomaszewski

The Office: a Private Collection, Katie Armstrong, Jules De Ballincourt, Adeline de Monseignat, Torkwase Dyson, Peter Halley, Minam Kobayachi, Victor Seaward

Undergoing violent ecological changes, natural landscapes are being shaped, augmented and supplanted by synthetic artifice, driven by discordant projects.

What kind of future do we dream of?

The group exhibition CONCRETE BEACHES, ARTIFICIAL LANDSCAPES is built around a hypothetical scenario – abstract, metaphysical, uncertain.

Visitors should see it as a fictional narrative in which each of us can place our own allegory of a shared future. Each piece and object animates these fantasized futures, sometimes already realized.

Taking as its inspiration the flamboyant reveries of J.G. Ballard’s first collection of short stories, Vermillon Sands (1973), the exhibition aims to provoke the imagination around hybrid narratives.