Future Shock: A Requiem of the Past

Future Shock: A Requiem of the Past is a group show consisting of Centre[4]Arts’ artist members whose work explores notions of loss and erasure in the process of progress. This exhibition challenges the viewer to consider – what is left behind when we move forward? The rise of urbanization erases communities and histories. American author and Futurist Alvin Toffler describes this process as, “[a] continual evolutionary process of evacuations, demolitions, removals, temporarily vacant lots, new installations and repeat. This process is identical in principle to the annual rotation of crops[…].”

Future Shock: A Requiem of the Past aims to excavate the past and honour what has been rendered obsolete.