Future Ancestors
Ilit Azoulay explores systems of knowledge, historiography, and the ways in which images shape our collective memory. The work is presented in dialogue with sculptures by Alicja Kwade, in collaboration with Galerie Mennour, creating a complementary exchange between image and sculpture.
As part of this year’s edition of Various Others in Munich, Future Ancestors brings together high-resolution images from public domain archives, including ancient artifacts and photographs from NASA. Objects dating from 2,000 to 7,000 years ago encounter cosmic phenomena that have traveled vast distances through space, forming a shared visual heritage.
Within the installation, these images are arranged on shelves against studio walls, forming a visual language that connects past and future, earth and cosmos. The work conceives of time as layered and interwoven, a structure in which knowledge circulates across parallel worlds.