Adaptation to the Future

Humanity has radically transformed virtually everything on this planet and artists must now ask: what is happening to our trust in the material world as we know it? And how should we perceive and resolve the relationship between this “given” materiality and the materiality of data and information. A new pressure on the material aspect of the artwork repeatedly and urgently forces artists to reconsider their formal decisions in relation to a warming Earth, the ethics of production, transport, and political responsibility. With the project Adaptation to the Future we want to reflect on how the present generation is building a faith in a future that is being challenged by science, a faith in the relevance of art that, by virtue of its material condition, is a part of human creativity that is awe-inspiring from a cultural perspective but has brought this planet to its current state of incipient collapse. We must also ask how small states such as the Czech Republic and Slovenia view their responsibility for the material commons (and the destructive effects thereof) that they manage,create, consume, liquidate and represent. How to reflect on a local level the impacts of the Anthropocene on both human and non-human spheres. The exhibition features works that interrogate the entire concept of a superior humanity, the dual organisation of things, linear time, material purity, originality, the metric system and a market valuation of objects and things, works that remind us that reality, though not absolute, is the only thing that we as a global society have jointly agreed on.