Honestly stoked to see the Future Art Ecosystems book series (which I creative directed and designed the first volume) on display at Holly Herndon and Mat Dryhurst’s amazing Serpentine show, The Call.

Feels like London has been locked in a cultural dry spell since the pandemic, then we get this and Chronoplasticity at Raven Row opening in the same week. Two hopeful, relevant and informed exhibitions opening at once, it feels like coming up for air.

How to respond when life is bent out of shape and the future is framed and compromised? How to render the present, and circumvent it if we have to? How do we engage with the histories that we are bound to and the ones that seem out of reach? […] Life in the 21st century so far is characterised by human-made and sometimes scifi-like social and environmental breakdowns. The planetary ‘we’ are in so many ways confronted with a stultifying, broken-down present. We don’t need to live the way we do today. In fact, in many ways we shouldn’t. Maybe what can be realised from living through such a critical moment is just how closely interwoven are personal and collective destinies.

Lars Bang Larsen

The only way to counter cynics is with beauty and belief.

Mat Dryhurst

Chronoplasticity 3 October to 8 December 2024 at Raven Row

The Call 4 October 2024 to 2 February 2025 at Serpentine North

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