ABOUT
Humanity has always sought to make sense of its realities,
in its pursuit of progress and change
— human rights, gender equality,
climate change, migration, plural identities,
health and care,
access to knowledge, freedom of expression,
cybersecurity, and global cooperation.… —
VERTIGE!
Futurists, artists, and science-fiction writers explore these challenges,
imagining the future as a “black hole”:
inspiring, unsettling, or anxiety-inducing,
but above all
a space for reflection and creation.
Margalit Berriet
“…It is within this tension
— between the vertigo of form and the black hole of ground —
that art reaches its most naked truth:
it does not show, it draws in.
It does not describe, it absorbs.
It is in this spiral between eros and thanatos,
in this chaos of dislocated and recomposed bodies,
that Riccarda Montenero’s work is formed.”
Helen Margaret Giovanello
Mémoire de l’Avenir
Sir Roger Penrose, Nobel Prize in Physics (2020),
shows in his work on black holes and the Big Bang
that the history of the universe begins with creation, not with an end:
“The history of the universe repeats endlessly, ...
Time cycles are never identical:
the universe unfolds each time with differences.”