Ana Mas Projects
ARCOmadrid 2018

What is going to happen is not “the future”, but what we are going to do

The future is a space that only exists in a conceptual way and therefore everyone can create it. We need different languages ​​to reveal the problems that the future brings us; but language, and its notions and arguments depend on perception. Art and artists are a great guarantee of freedom, public life and understanding of complex issues that affect our way of relating to gender, nature, technology and the possibility of achieving a different and richer political vocabulary than our own. I presented. How to talk about the future at ARCOmadrid? It could, brought to this context, be misinterpreted as a prospecting exercise in the future of the art market and not in the future of our actions and responsibilities with art and culture. But precisely we will take it as a challenge with sense since since its inception, and for many professionals, it has been a place of meeting and discussion. Through the presentation of a series of artists, a publication and a symposium we will talk about the future without futurology, as a tentative exercise to address what today feeds art and society.

Section curated by Chus Martínez, Elise Lammer and Rosa Lleó

With Hugo Canoilas, Salvador Dalí, Patricia Domínguez, Eva Fàbregas,
Regina Giménez, Petrit Halilaj, Maryam Jafri, Barbara Kasten, Július Koller, Pedro Neves Marques, Ad Minoliti, Eduardo Navarro, OPAVIVARÁ!, Lili Reynaud-Dewar, Lin May Saeed, Teresa Solar, Ramaya Tegegne, Goran Trbuljak y Álvaro Urbano.