D11 at DOCKLANDS
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This Used To Be The Future
(front & rear galleries)
An exhibition of new paintings
Featuring live performances by:
Ash Wednesday
Ollie Olsen
Opening event:
Saturday Oct 11, 6-10pm
11 - 25 OCTOBER
WED - SUN 12 - 5PM
Josh Lord’s upcoming exhibition, ‘This used to be the future’’ featuring over 50 new works, asks: ‘When did today become our future?’
Within these series of works, Lord investigates what space travel could mean in our ‘brave’ new 21st-century world, where materialism is the driving force and a digital dark age has descended upon us. Today, we have this expectation that we can just press the ‘delete’ button when things go wrong and everything will be miraculously the same again.
Religion, government and industry have become as one – and they all know what’s ‘best’ for us. Millions of voices across the planet have been silenced. ‘Goodwill’ has become yet another public display of false nobility that echoes a global moral decline.
In “This used to be the future”, Lord questions when was it that we stopped listening to our own history; to our grandparents, whose fathers, mothers, sisters, brothers and friends fought and died for their vision of utopia? When did we cease to care? If we have the capacity for space travel, are we destined – or doomed – to repeat our empire-building past? Will we be modern-day conquistadors, conquering and destroying, colonising and usurping alien lands, bringing our diseases and our warped sense of morality?