Coming Soon - While waiting for tomorrow

Exhibition Catalogue Coming Soon. While waiting for tomorrow, presented at the Fondation Lafayette Anticipations, Paris (until May 12, 2024).

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 exhibition catalogue features essays by Sandrine Alexandre, K Allado-Mcdowell, Ama Josephine Budge Johnstone, Kara Keeling, Rebecca Lamarche-Vadel, Martine Syms and Olivier Zeitoun.

Artists presented : 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 * · The Simpsons · Diamond Stingily · Martine Syms · Sung Tieu · Rirkrit Tiravanija · Nora Turato · Jules Verne  · Georges Widener. And archaeological objects from the Louvre.