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The “Tomorrow is Canceled” exhibition invites artists to rewrite the future

2024-03-07T12:57:00.884Z

Highlights: The “Tomorrow is Canceled” exhibition invites artists to rewrite the future. Faced with the environment in crisis, sobriety, responsibility and optimism permeate the works. “Is it right for the EDF Group Foundation to ask itself the question?”, ask the skeptics. The Group Foundation… This article is reserved for subscribers. You have 70% left to discover. Flash sale €4.49/month for 12 months I ENJOY IT Already subscribed? Log in.


CRITICISM - Faced with the environment in crisis, sobriety, responsibility and optimism permeate the works presented at the EDF Group Foundation.


What if the future no longer existed?

Faced with this question which fuels all the dystopian series on Netflix, the artists respond with sobriety, moderation, self-awareness.

The Scarlet Plague

, a short story by Jack London published in 1912, already imagined the sudden cessation of progress and the return to the cave age.

New York 1997

, by American filmmaker John Carpenter, froze the city in a besieged prison.

“Winter is coming”

, promised

Game of Thrones

, to associate the curse of the cold with the

“no future”

of science fiction writers.

Energy is the sinews of war, the war in Ukraine reminded us.

“Is it right for the EDF Group Foundation to ask itself the question?”

, ask the skeptics.

“Exhibitions that make you think”

“Tomorrow is canceled,” the 23 artists, French and international, men and women, responded with humor and optimism, gathered for a good cause in this beautiful Parisian cul-de-sac.

The title, crossed out as a non-choice, is borrowed from the artist Alexis Rero, 41 years old.

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