28 Feb 2024
12 May 2024

"COMING SOON" - GROUP EXHIBITION

LAFAYETTE ANTICIPATIONS - PARIS

 

Thinking, dreaming, foreseeing or fearing the future has shaped our presence in the world since its very beginnings. In our current context, one of profound metamorphosis and uncertainty, "Coming Soon" revisits this relationship we have with the unknown.

 

The exhibition looks at our relationship and ways of being towards what is ahead, eludes and awaits us. Between predictions, oracles, systems of anticipation and capitulations, the exhibition mixes commissions to contemporary artists with historical objects. Taking up artist Barbara Kruger's phrase, “the future belongs to those who can see it”, "Coming Soon" addresses what our conception of the future says of present times; how our hopes, our pessimism, our desires and anxieties manifest themselves; how different ways of beings and attitudes translate. The future is a time-space in constant evolution, which all don’t get to inhabit under the same terms and conditions. Engaging us to think urgently about the future through different understandings of togetherness, "Coming Soon" focuses on possible paths of writing, imagining, creating and embodying collective outcomes.

 

"The desire and the need to tell the future, to decipher signs and give form to the unknown has resulted in the creation of countless gestures, words, and objects throughout human history."

Rebecca Lamarche-Vadel, Curator of the exhibition.

 

PRESENTED ARTISTS: Bas Jan Ader, John Akomfrah, Chino Amobi, Clovis Bataille, Nina Beier*, Neïl Beloufa, Stéphanie Brossard, Leonora Carrington, Xinyi Cheng, Alexandru Chira, Mimosa Echard, Cécile B. Evans*, Cerith Wyn Evans, Johann Heinrich Füssli, Marguerite Humeau*, Christine Sun Kim, Emma Kunz, Romany Marie, Nggamdu.org*, Philippe Parreno, Benoît Piéron*, Bridget Polk*, Heji Shin, Lisa Signorini*, Les Simpson, Diamond Stingily, Sung Tieu, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Nora Turato, Jules Verne, George Widener... As well as archeological objects from the Louvre.

*New productions supported by Lafayette Anticipations

Rirkrit Tiravanija, untitled 2015 (demain est la question), 2015
Diamond Stingily Entryways, 2021
Leonora Carrington, The Tarot of Leonora Carrington (2020 – d’après des originaux, vers 1955).
Stèle à oreille dédiée par Iouny à Ptah, -1550 - -1069 avant J.-C.
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9 rue du Plâtre 
or 44 rue Sainte-Croix de la Bretonnerie 
75 004 Paris

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Curator and director of Lafayette Anticipations:
Rebecca Lamarche-Vadel

 

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