PAST IN THE FUTURE, 2025
Oil on canvas, gold leaf
The painting “Past in the Future” visually and symbolically brings together two opposing realms — the primal and the futuristic. Red monkey figures become the central protagonists, inhabiting a complex, geometrically constructed environment composed of deep blue fields and structured golden forms. Monkeys, traditionally associated with humanity’s origins and instinctive nature, are rendered here in vivid red — as a warning, a manifestation of life force, or even a sense of unease that resists disappearing into a world dominated by technology. They move freely through an environment that evokes both a jungle-like structure and futuristic architecture or a technological system. This contrast between the natural being and the artificially constructed environment creates the sense that humanity’s path, having passed through the technological age, may at some point inevitably return to its foundations. The title “Past in the Future” emphasises this cyclical nature — everything that has existed before may return in another form. The work offers no definitive answer as to whether this represents progress or regression. Will humanity become absorbed into the technological jungles of its own creation and lose its human essence? Or, on the contrary, will it discover a new path within them, one in which the natural and the artificial merge into a unified whole? The work reflects on how the global situation, shaped by the tension between the loss of nature and the increasing dominance of technology, may lead to the beginning of a new cycle. Humanity will be compelled to continue evolving — not only within the jungles of nature, but also within the “futuristic jungles” composed of forms, structures and systems of its own creation. In this sense, the painting is not merely a contemporary artistic exploration of colour and form. It poses an open question to the viewer: Could the future, in fact, be a return to the past — but on a new level?
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