As the first decade of the 21st century draws to a close, we find ourselves experiencing the birth pains of a new era of untold possibilities. Postmodernism is coming to an end, having deconstructed and torn down all the structures of the modernist age. We stand amidst the conceptual rubble of inessential truths and fallen idols.
Our hands pause—for a moment—before plying themselves anew to the age-old task of reinventing the world.
Today is Yesterday’s Tomorrow is a conceptual art exhibit with philosophical roots in both the modernist and postmodernist tradition. Yet, it is our intention to transcend both through a synthesis of past, present, and future. We seek to make art conscious of its own historicity and give rise to a new age of self-aware mythmaking.
Most closely allied to the Frankfurt school of Critical Theory and the Situationist’s International of May 1968 fame, we intend to use this show as a phenomenology of current culture. Particularly, we are engaged in the binary of past-future and its manifestations as both vintage culture and apocalyptism.
Our work endeavors to resolve the murky relationships of contemporary existence by presenting a new aesthetic and a new mythos. By working with the deconstructed elements of the past, we will re-enframe and re-imagine them to create our visions of the future.
