MONOLITH Gallery

MONOLITH Gallery is proud to present "Protopian Futures" curated by Kristyna Archer. “Protopia” is a non-binary state of becoming. Coined by futurist Kevin Kelly, the term indicates “a state better than yesterday.” Unlike the binary extremes of utopia and dystopia, it is characterized by incremental developments towards a regenerative future, achieved through intentional and purposeful disruption with experimentation, innovation, and collaboration.

This collection, Protopian Futures, features artists imagining futures beyond the binary of utopia and dystopia, offering new ways of thinking embodied by their work and practice. These pragmatic futurists disrupt by creating through a protopian lens of hybrid practices, phygital transformations, perceptual shifts, and metaphysical awakening. The problems of the future cannot be solved with the mindset of the past. Instead of burning it all down, they conjure visions to replace obsolete, hierarchical, extractive systems of power by rebuilding regeneratively with equitability.

In the wake of a near-dystopian collective trauma of the pandemic, here lies the budding seedlings from the cross-pollination of ideas that cultivate a critical dialogue focused on coevolution, slow tech, queer theory, decolonization, and reimagined heritage. Protopian Futures presents a cultural shift in how we actively engage in rebuilding our future beyond the binary, recovering the human in a deeply digital world.

MONOLITH Exhibition XIII

MONOLITH Exhibition XIII

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