The Future Will Remember explores the construction of memory in times of tragedy, challenging the increasingly digital nature of our justice landscapes with documentation in sculptural artifacts for future ancestors. A disruption to epistemicide, an entombment of truths, millennium objects for an archive of struggle. In the language of archaeology, it attempts to document aspects of current conflict to confront systems that withhold accountability or representation where history is recorded, erasure is attempted, and distortion is perpetrated.
In an EXCLUSIVE interview with Firstpost’s Lachmi Deb Roy, artist Alexis Rose explains how art can be political and the recent unrest in Palestine Edited excerpts from the interview: What was your thought that went behind the exhibition? My work is often excavations of future pasts, extinct cosmic realms that didn’t decolonize in time, warning works of capitalist cosmologies. But as we began to watch fresh atrocity unfold in October, the faces of children unearthed by bare hands each morning, new ruins in real time, live events of extinction, I couldn’t generate more evacuated futures, more warnings, because we became so pregnant with them in the brutal present. After a few weeks of witnessing the world’s first live streamed genocide, I was moved make memorial.
Palestine’s Ministry of Health released the names of the first 6747 martyrs that could be counted. I printed them out and made a ceremony with them. When the denial of .