Tender Futures Explores Solarpunk Futures at CAN Centre d'Art Neuchâtel
The exhibition "Tender Futures" at CAN Centre d'Art Neuchâtel delves into the ways we can envision and construct future scenarios, rooted in solarpunk—a movement that fuses science fiction, ecology, and politics with a hopeful outlook on transformed lifestyles and environmental interactions. This exhibition critiques contemporary productivist and capitalist ideologies, addressing pressing issues as a form of gentle resistance to negativity. Utilizing solarpunk concepts, it imagines low-tech living and alternative frameworks, evident in the unfinished wall panels of the venue. Featured artists examine connections with agriculture, objects, and production, highlighting the butterfly effect, where minor changes today can result in significantly different futures. The press release can be accessed at can.ch, authored by Victor Sala and translated by Leo Stephen Torgoff.
Key facts
- Tender Futures is on view at CAN Centre d'Art Neuchâtel.
- The exhibition's starting point is solarpunk, an artistic movement at the intersection of science fiction, ecology and politics.
- Solarpunk is characterized by an optimistic vision of a future based on transformed lifestyles, technologies and relationships with the environment.
- The show takes a critical stance toward productivist and capitalist logics structuring contemporary Western society.
- The venue's architecture is redefined with new wall panels deliberately left unfinished to foreground process and experimentation.
- Invited artists were selected for practices opening spaces for speculation, with new works produced specifically for the exhibition.
- New works function as research into relationships with agriculture, objects, time and modes of production, from utopian to dystopian viewpoints.
- The exhibition text is by Victor Sala, translated by Leo Stephen Torgoff, with the press release available via can.ch.
Entities
Artists
- Victor Sala
- Leo Stephen Torgoff
Institutions
- CAN Centre d'Art Neuchâtel
Locations
- Neuchâtel
- Switzerland
- Brazil
- Texas