All exhibitions invite us to travel in time, but this one insists on it.īased on a methodology by Prem Krishnamurthy, Our Silver City has been developed by the artists Céline Condorelli, Femke Herregraven and Grace Ndiritu, and the novelist Liz Jensen, in close dialogue with Krishnamurthy and the Nottingham Contemporary team. Along the way, we encounter a selection of artefacts, remnants and artworks connecting the long 21st century with what went before. It traces a route from change to understanding, from inner knowledge to wisdom. This exhibition is imagined as a journey unfolding across four galleries, orientated to the cardinal points. Here, communities have embraced different forms of colour production, weather forecasting and spirituality. Once known as Nottingham, the Silver City is set against a backdrop of fire seasons and widening waterways. This world has been reshaped by decades of crisis and collapse: resource wars and evacuations, plastic-eating bacteria and flooding. It is an exhibition-as-sci-fi-novel, or vice-versa.Ĭrossing the gallery threshold, we step into a possible future world. Our Silver City travels to the end of this century, featuring works from the last 400 million years. 'A profound exhibition', Amrit Doll, ArtReview 'Our Silver City feels full of hope, vitality, energy and creative spark, and doesn’t take itself too seriously, however real the approaching calamity.', ★★★★ Adrian Searle, The Guardian Installation shot at Nottingham Contemporary, 2021.

Below: Wet Spells, 2021 Installation by Femke Herregraven.Courtesy: the artist and Nottingham Contemporary. Our Silver City, 2094 installation view at Nottingham Contemporary, 2021–22.

Cosmos, Tuareg, 2021 Unknown maker, Bear Jug, 1740–60 Unknown maker, Loving Cup, 1770 Vivian Lynn, Caryatid, 1986 Charlotte Johannesson, Each Is a Universe, 2018 Unknown maker, Knight Jug, 1250–1300. Right: The Temple, 2021 installation designed by Grace Ndiritu featuring works by Armando D.

Left: Installation by Céline Condorelli featuring works by Anna Barham, Revital Cohen and Tuur van Balen, Isa Genzken, Hannah Catherine Jones, Agnieszka Kurant, Delphine Reist, Ben Rivers, Cauleen Smith and specimens from Nottingham City Museums.

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