Relics for the Future takes as its point of departure an imagined future, in which artworks created today might be interpreted in a very different way than they are currently. Will the people of the future look at today’s works of art and assign significance which was entirely unintended? Will they perhaps see our artwork as antidotes to archaic social networks that in fact isolated us more than connected us? Will the artwork of today be seen as our most successful attempts at dialogue with one another — odd idols, reliquaries, mandalas or icons that have transformative power in a society otherwise bereft of such possibility, holding magical properties that we currently assign to the art of the ancients? Are we the last generation of artists who can make use of materials on a planet where resources could very well become unobtainable for most artists? Will they find curious that we still had the capacity to indulge in materials and supplies at the eve of the climate crisis? What will an artwork of the future be like, when artists no longer have the luxury of utilizing scarce resources? In interpreting the artwork of today, what will their art history methodologies tell them about the work we create now? This show is both a playful and serious look at the question of artmaking in our present moment, and the issues that might face artists in a not-very-distant future.