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The question is what kind of ancestors we choose to become.
This exhibition brings together images from open-access archives,
ritual objects, historical artifacts, and planetary events,
approached as a shared visual resource rather than fixed historical evidence.
Objects once used for accessing knowledge, healing, protection,
and communication are placed alongside images produced by contemporary technologies.
Past and future appear here as parallel systems for making sense of the world,
coexisting on the same visual plane. Each work is built through acts of juxtaposition.
Images are positioned in relation to one another to activate connections
across time, geography, and scale. These placements form constellations,
where meaning emerges through proximity, tension, and alignment.
May the paths between closed opinions open,
May distant voices be heard together,
And worlds meet without canceling one another.
To think as a future ancestor is to act in the present as if memory has already begun.
The works function as signals: fragments of a transmission unfolding across time.
Future Ancestors
Lohaus Sominsky, 2026







Photograper: Dirk Tacke