Fragments of a Lost Future

Karen David, Lana Locke, Liz Elton, Mimei Thompson, Susie Olczak

Fragments of a Lost Future presents work by five artists who consider themes of the non-human, the city, fiction, the passage of time and sustainability to question the nature of our current reality. 

The Planet’s mineral, energy and agriculture resources have been efficiently, and even ruthlessly, exploited… They have harnessed the energy of the atom, deciphered the molecular codes that oversee their own reproduction… Despite these achievements the people of this planet have in other respects scarcely raised themselves above the lowest level of barbarism. The enjoyment of pain and violence is as natural to them as the air they breathe.

J.G. Ballard [“Report From an Obscure Planet”, 1992]

In ‘Report from an Obscure Planet’, Ballard describes the critical state of the Earth as viewed from
another place. White Conduit Projects brings together these five artists who bravely and playfully incorporate this sense of crisis into the core and surface of their work. Starting with their everyday surroundings, they attempt new ways of communication, quietly bringing a Ballardian nuance to artworks that inhabit our domestic space.

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