The Future Perfect has long held a curatorial vision that seeks out and amplifies the vanguard of contemporary design, while maintaining a pedagogy grounded in historical perspective. For Design Miami 2024, we have chosen to highlight our programming as allowing for an optimistic understanding of our place in a shifting world. We seek to show work that moves upwards and elevates the history and traditions from which it draws. Contemporary design and its future provide us with a gravitational unknown, pulling us skyward on a path demarcated by the work with which we engage.
The vision of this sentiment comes to fruition through a continued exploration of a bifurcated space, which shows two different but overlapping and unified perspectives on The Future Perfect’s curatorial programming. Like day and night, each occurring under the same sky, our booth shows the slow movement of time as a material sensation, unlike the viewer running their fingertips through grass and onto carpet. These two sides of merging and separating, apart and unified, are meant to produce an experience that is as unencumbered by language as it is specific to encountering artworks.
The Future Perfect’s presentation takes immediate hold of its space, with one half showcasing an exhibition of works from a myriad of emerging and established artists. The constellation of objects under a blue sky comprises pieces made especially for the fair alongside works that feel familiar in origin but represent massive leaps in skill and practice. This unexpected juxtaposition evokes a striking, delicate dance in a continual search for cooperative purpose.
One side features works by Anina Major, Autumn Casey, Ben & Aja Blanc, Chen Chen & Kai Williams, Chris Wolston, Cody Hoyt, Eric Roinestad, Floris Wubben, Ian Collings, Jane Yang-D’Haene, John Hogan, Karl Zahn, Kristin Victoria Barron, Laurids Gallee, Leena Similu, Lindsey Adelman, MyungJin Kim, Olivia Cognet, Piet Hein Eek, Reinaldo Sanguino, Sophie Lou Jacobsen, and Thompson Street Studio.
The other side presents the work of Vikram Goyal, an artist who produces ambitious and narrative metalwork using repoussé to create images in bronze relief. Learn about Vikram’s presentation here.
Experience The Future Perfect’s booth – G16 – at Design Miami through December 8.