FUTURE ANCESTORS
15.05 - 27.06.2026
Future Ancestors
Ilit Azoulay explores systems of knowledge, historiography, and the ways images shape collective memory. Working with photography and large-scale digital installations, she brings together diverse visual sources to question how we understand time and history.
Presented as part of this year’s edition of Various Others in Munich, Future Ancestors combines high-resolution images from public domain archives, including ancient artifacts and NASA photographs. Objects dating from 2000 to 7000 years ago meet celestial phenomena that have traveled across vast stretches of time, forming a shared visual heritage.
In the installation, these images are arranged on shelves against studio walls, creating a visual language that connects past and future, earth and cosmos. The work proposes time as layered and interconnected, where knowledge moves across parallel worlds.
The project is shown in dialogue with sculptures by Alicja Kwade, in collaboration with Galerie Mennour, Paris, creating a complementary exchange between image and sculpture.
FUTURE ANCESTORS
15.05 - 27.06.2026
Future Ancestors
Ilit Azoulay explores systems of knowledge, historiography, and the ways images shape collective memory. Working with photography and large-scale digital installations, she brings together diverse visual sources to question how we understand time and history.
Presented as part of this year’s edition of Various Others in Munich, Future Ancestors combines high-resolution images from public domain archives, including ancient artifacts and NASA photographs. Objects dating from 2000 to 7000 years ago meet celestial phenomena that have traveled across vast stretches of time, forming a shared visual heritage.
In the installation, these images are arranged on shelves against studio walls, creating a visual language that connects past and future, earth and cosmos. The work proposes time as layered and interconnected, where knowledge moves across parallel worlds.
The project is shown in dialogue with sculptures by Alicja Kwade, in collaboration with Galerie Mennour, Paris, creating a complementary exchange between image and sculpture.
