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When images of the future are in the past

No, it will not be about English grammar, this is just one specific case from the practice of conceptual symbolism in painting. In general, it must be said, the ability to predict the future is a rather rare quality, including for artists. These guys are so immersed in the world around them, which they try to either photograph or analyze, that there are practically no opportunities for prediction. The more interesting will be the fact that this chain of events of the past and the future not only happened, as they say, before our eyes, but was also sufficiently documented.

The story is as follows: at the exhibition in the Central House of Artists, which was then located in Moscow on Krymsky Val, among others, an art object by the Israeli conceptual artist Evgeny Gegouzin was also exhibited under the name InterrNet. This work was a large cube with a side of 100 cm, suspended in the air, on 6 sides of which bats were drawn. Those interested can see the photos on this site in the "news" section for 2013. And some individual pictures of these strange nocturnal animals are also in our gallery. However, it was 6 years later that the situation of worldwide viral corona hysteria broke out, and then WHO declared a pandemic, and bats from Wuhan, China, were named the vector.

But this is not the end of our story. There is a picture - also in our gallery - Observers / They are observing 2018. But the objects depicted in this object are clearly presented as viruses today. Please note that there is even more than a year before the COVID 19 epidemic. This is a single chain of events. Unfortunately, modern knowledge cannot explain it.

But - it is always very interesting to know what new surprises the future is preparing for us, or, in other words, what images of the future have we already seen?