Remembered Futures: Group Show

'Remembered Futures' is a meditation on the tension between preservation and progression, an exploration of how ancient techniques and natural materials become vessels for new ideas. This exhibition brings together artists who honour the deep lineage of Asian craftsmanship, while using it as a foundation to imagine futures not yet written.

Here, tradition is not simply recalled, it is reworked, reinterpreted, and recharged. Through practices such as ottchil, Shou Sugi Ban, and urishi lacquer, centuries-old processes are brought into dialogue with contemporary forms and techniques. In the hand of the artist, copper, paper, wood, and lacquers are not passive materials, but active storytellers, shaped by fire, time and nature.

What emerges is not nostalgia, but evolution: a study in transformation where resilience meets delicacy, and permanence coexists with ephemerality. These works do not just look back, they look through, challenging us to reconsider the role of memory in making, and the potential of tradition as a radical act of looking forward.

In the hands of these visionary makers, the material becomes the message and the future feels not just imagined, but remembered.

Within each detail is a dialogue between hand and material, history and possibility. The future, after all, is built from what we choose to carry forward.