Overview

The exhibition Backwards Ahead presents a selection of works, part of the Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Collection, that relates to the concepts of time, history, and evidence. Through the languages of sculpture, installation, and photography, the artists in the exhibition question the notion of linear time on which the Western conception of history rests. This view considers what is “ahead” as a sequence of events with no return and what is “backwards” as something that can be reconstructed only through an ongoing search for evidence, historical or judicial traces, that prove the truthfulness of events.

The title of the exhibition is borrowed from Kiran Subbaiah’s work, a closed-circuit installation that engages visitors in a system of deferred control, which reverses the space-time coordinates of those who pass through it.

“Backwards Ahead”, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin. https://fsrr.org/en/mostre/backwards-ahead/