This film screening series is dedicated to the future generations that will come after us. The shadows of the future have already fallen upon us, shaping the way we work and rest within their bounds. The artists reveal this condition, even when its contours remain indistinct—or perhaps we must recalibrate our perceptions to discover a new clarity.

The videos are structured around the conflict between vitality and decay, between organic growth and mechanical destruction. The video projection itself becomes a medium of instability: layers of superimposed images reveal a spectral materiality. Frames capturing the slow decomposition of soil, abstract textures of rot, and industrial traces on the body of the ecosystem unfold a metaphor of time, where past and future collapse into an elusive present.

The artists engage with nature as an archive of colonial, technological, and biological intervention. Here, greenery is not merely greenery but a residual projection of ecosystems altered by urban pressure. Water is not merely water but a membrane absorbing the history of toxic emissions and the currents of capital.

Artists:  Anna Potiomkina with Diana Derii and Kris Voitkiv (UA), Anton Saienko (UA), Daniil Revkovskyi and Andrii Rachynskyi(UA), James Stephen Wright (UK), Katia Libkind (UA)), Nick Crowe and Ian Rawlinson (UK), Dasha Chechushkova (UA), Ker Wallwork (UK), Abi Palmer (UK), David Sherry (UK)

Curators: Anna Morokhovska, Curator Museum of Odesa Modern Art, James Stephen Wright, Videocity UK co-head, Yulia Manukyan, Curator 

Curatorial advice: Andrii Siguntsov, Chief curator of Museum of Odesa Modern Art, Andrea Domesle, director Videocity, Basel

Made possible with the support of: British Council, Ukraine and the collaboration of MoOMA and Videocity UK team.

 «A Millennium Before Them, To Their Spirit» is supported by the British Council’s

Support for Cultural Activity in Ukraine with UK Involvement programme.