Marte Aas, Zheng Bo, Maja Borg, Enar de Dios Rodríguez, Duke & Battersby, Masako Miyazaki, OK Pedersen, Karine Savard, et al.

The feeling is already there. In the near future, we'll miss what we've missed: what we've neglected, what we've mistreated, will manifest itself in the desire to recover what now belongs to the past. The anticipation of this future, or the impulse that draws us to it, inscribes the past into the present, already infusing the present with its own nostalgia. A nostalgia that, with regard to both the past and the future, involves projecting a constructed image on another. An image nourished by the romantic hope of rediscovering a bygone era.

In Futur antérieur. Missing What Will Be Missed, works by 13 local, Canadian and international artists are brought together to address notions of futurity in regards to the ecological crisis. This exhibition distinguishes itself from many others developed around the subject, exploring in particular how artists choose to represent this subject by distancing themselves from information gathering, documentation or a posture borrowed from scientific work. Incidences where the concepts of representation and romanticization merge or, conversely, clash, are examined. Torn between realism and idealism, questions are raised about how to project ourselves into the future when the present — and, of course, the past — are already beyond our grasp.