The Future Starts Here
It is a brave time to stage an exhibition about the future. We are currently living through the sixth mass extinction event in the planet’s history, only now it is humanity, not a rogue asteroid or volcano, that bears the blame. While our world leaders should be working together to stave off the looming climate apocalypse, we find ourselves mired in an era of secrecy, misinformation and isolationism. So, having absorbed headline after alarming headline about climate change, melting icecaps, drought, famine and ocean acidification, why don’t we all just give in to despair? In his 2017 article “The
