The future before it happened

Outpost for Contemporary Art
exhibition at
The Glendale College Art Gallery
1500 N. Verdugo Rd
Glendale, CA 91208

This Is The Future Before It Happened
Jeff Cain, Krysten Cunningham, Tom Dale, Veaceslav Druta, Adam Frelin, Olexander Gnilitsky, Vlatka Horvat, Tim Hyde, Yuliya Kostereva + Yuriy Kruchak, Nebojsa Milikic, Maarten Vanden Eynde, and Angie Waller

This is the Future before it Happened concludes two years of artist residencies and exchanges sponsored by Outpost for Contemporary Art. Over half of the included artists are presenting new work developed during their residencies in Los Angeles or while on exchange in Kyiv, Ukraine.

Over the last two years, Outpost has worked with Eastern European artists who are challenging official histories, reclaiming forgotten pasts, evoking future possibilities, and asserting an aspiration and ability to affect positive social change in order to complicate the paths of progress claimed by their governments. Inspired by this critical stance, this exhibition plays with the fixity of time and how one moves through it. Rather than thinking of time as a linear progression, the title suggests an elliptical oscillation that allows mental projections from the present to the past and into the future in a start-and-stop dynamic.

[Text from an Outpost press release. Screen grab from Outpost's Web site.]