How to imagine the world without Europe? That was the question we put in 2019 to a group of racialised and mixed-race artists from Abya Yala committed to decolonisation processes. The idea was to recreate the future that could have been, had Europe not intervened, and showcase other societal models that have refused to be wiped out and which protect the memory that another way is possible. Through different formats, this exhibition seeks to appeal to the sensibilities and world orders that challenge and resist the future model proposed by the Western World. This exercise in speculative fiction and critical fabulation falls back on the anti-futurism as an undominated concept of time, and asks us to retrace our steps in an exercise of memory and reinvention of space and time. If the today we live in is the future that modernity dreamed of, the people who have suffered its onslaught and its ideology remind us that “the future is gone”; the future is behind us and not ahead.
The exhibition portrays marronage as a flight and escape from the materialistic plantation-world of the hierarchical European civilisational matrix of labour, populations and bodies organised under the aegis of racial capitalism and its thirst to accumulate.
Curanderas:
Yuderkys Espinosa
Katia Sepúlveda
Artists:
Colectivo Ajchowen
Colectivo Ayllu
Imayna Cáceres
Yoel Díaz Vázquez
Johanné Gómez Terrero
Marcela Huitraiqueo
Grupo Katanga
Nitzayra Leonor
Dj Maldita Vaina
Verena Melgarejo
Daniela Ortiz
Naomi Rincón Gallardo
Yelaine Rodríguez
Evel Romain
Katia Sepúlveda
Exhibition coproduced by Santa Mònica and La Virreina Centre de la Imatge
https://ajuntament.barcelona.cat/lavirreina/en/future-gone-cimarron-anti-futurism
https://artssantamonica.gencat.cat/en/detall/Anti-Futurisme-Cimarron