LOHAUS GALLERY

Kamel Mennour

Future Ancestors
Ilit Azoulay explores systems of knowledge, historiography, and the ways in which images shape our collective memory. The work is presented in dialogue with sculptures by Alicja Kwade, in collaboration with Galerie Mennour, creating a complementary exchange between image and sculpture.
As part of this year’s edition of Various Others in Munich, Future Ancestors brings together high-resolution images from public domain archives, including ancient artifacts and photographs from NASA. Objects dating from 2,000 to 7,000 years ago encounter cosmic phenomena that have traveled vast distances through space, forming a shared visual heritage.
Within the installation, these images are arranged on shelves against studio walls, forming a visual language that connects past and future, earth and cosmos. The work conceives of time as layered and interwoven, a structure in which knowledge circulates across parallel worlds.

We are pleased to invite you to an artist talk at our gallery as part of Various Others and on the occasion of our new exhibition “Future Ancestors / Silent Matter.” The talk will be held with Ilit Azoulay and Tobias Sirtl, specialist in contemporary art at Phillips Auction House, Munich. We look forward to welcoming you. Wir laden Sie herzlich zu einem Artist Talk in unserer Galerie im Rahmen von Various Others und anlässlich unserer neuen Ausstellung „Future Ancestors / Silent Matter“ ein. Das Gespräch findet mit Ilit Azoulay und Tobias Stirl, Spezialist für zeitgenössische Kunst beim Auktionshaus Phillips in München, statt. Wir freuen uns, Sie bei uns begrüßen zu dürfen.