A Lost Future

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This three-part exhibition challenges existing histories and speculative futures across cultures and in Bengal - a culturally rich region divided between present-day India and Bangladesh. The three contemporary artists featured in the exhibition - Shezad Dawood, The Otolith Group, and Matti Braun - engage an evocative range of mediums that spans virtual reality to an immersive lake along with painting, film, sculpture, and photography. Through rich storytelling, A Lost Future explores themes of virtuality, modernity, and world-making in ways that are universal as well as interconnected and specific to this region.

Alongside paintings and sculptures, the exhibition features Shezad Dawood's Kalimpong, an interactive virtual reality experience of the Indian hill station Kalimpong, linking a haunting nostalgic portal to a future alternative reality. Expanding on some of the sites and stories in Dawood’s paintings and sculptures on view, the virtual reality work allows visitors to travel from the mythic Himalayan Hotel into the mountains, an adjacent monastery, and beyond.