2123: NAÏVE FUTURES

The third edition of Accessible Objects takes the year 2123 as both marker and metaphor — the date of its launch, the re-emergence of the project after a long pause, and a century projected forward. If the last hundred years have been defined by technological expansion, economic ambition, and the reordering of human and ecological systems, the next century remains suspended between wonder and apprehension. 2123: Naïve Futures asks what it might mean to imagine the future from a position of unlearning. The works assembled here move between awareness and refusal — they recognize the omnipresence of digital systems, industrial processes, and algorithmic play, yet they also seek to withdraw from them. In place of acceleration, they cultivate forms of slowness and intuition. The future they propose is not sleek but porous: inhabited by humor, nostalgia, and the unruly persistence of matter. Across these objects runs a quiet desire to reconcile the artificial with the organic — to let natural growth consume the fabricated, to find renewal in the worn, or to reimagine technology as relic. They suggest that invention may yet emerge from regression, that progress might fold back on itself until it touches the premodern, the primal, the naive. In this sense, Naïve Futures is less a forecast than a hypothesis — that the century to come could be defined not by mastery but by remembering, not by efficiency but by empathy. The exhibition imagines a future that does not rush ahead but bends toward the past, carrying with it the tenderness, awkwardness, and open-ended curiosity of beginnings.