Face of the Future, The Rubin Museum, February 2 -  November 4, 2018.

Our reflections on speculative, fantastic, or dystopic futures are profoundly shaped by contemporary print culture, specifically movie posters of silent, supernatural, and science fiction cinema. This exhibition examines the visual languages of “the future” that such posters continue to build on and proliferate.

Chitra Ganesh’s works on paper and collages combine her ongoing research into the Rubin Museum’s permanent collection—including cosmological diagrams, depictions of the moment between death and rebirth known as the bardo, and an illuminated manuscript—with contemporary visual elements of science fiction drawn from film posters, comics, and speculative literature.These works are in dialogue with the artist’s animated interventions on the second and third floors, which similarly hone visual materials to deepen along-held engagement with South Asian mythologies, feminist narratives, and nonlinear or cyclical time.

The theater level exhibition includes an artist-curated series of science fiction film posters as re-imagined by a group of seven emerging artists. Participating artists Maia Cruz Palileo, Tammy Nguyen, Sahana Ramakrishnan, Jagdeep Raina, Anuj Shrestha, Nontsikelelo Mutiti and Tuesday Smillie re-imagine the aesthetics of science fiction, amplifying the visual imagery of posters created beyond the confines of Western cinema and storytelling in Face of the Future at The Rubin Museum of Art. These posters, alongside new works by Chitra Ganesh, were on view at the Rubin Museum’s exhibition Chitra Ganesh: Face of the Future from February 2 -  November 4, 2018.