It’s 2199, in the desertificated Budapest. The former Pannonian Sea has become a deadly salt flat. We have exceeded utopias and got bored with dystopias. We need new aesthetic codes. But how to be an outsider after so many future-shocks? Art in itself is alchemy, an ensemble of occult sorcery and mystical rites. The hermetic triangle of body, mind and spirit: magical transmutation of physical sensations, conceptual contents and psychic impressions into aesthetic experiences. A forever interacting sublimation of materials, ideas and feelings. This exhibition is an exploratory and experimental assemblage of world-building and speculative fiction. The displayed artworks try to capture an alternative way of thinking and feeling about the future, opposed to contemporary cyberpunk-postdigital dystopias and solarpunk-ecological utopias.

The exhibition is an environment-like space, a journey into the future by aesthetic experiences and free associations based on a lore (background story) that…