Guided Tour of REVERSE FUTURES exhibition at the Joburg Contemporary Art Foundation (JCAF)

Reverse Futures: Guided Tour

‘Reverse Futures’ explores ideas of the future from the Global South, where past, present and future are interconnected. The artworks reflect on migration, memory, ecology, the cosmos and power, inviting viewers to reconsider the role of technology through through immersive and unexpected encounters: diving underwater to hear stories from the Kalk Bay community, an African astronaut searching for a habitable world, traces of slavery in Kenyan caves, the contradictory smells of jasmine and concrete in Johannesburg, a robot re-enacting a 19th-century liberation campaign in the Andes, and a visualisation of the logics of empire. Together, these works open a space for alternative ways of imagining the planet’s future.