Laura Prochilo Solo Exhibition
3-A Gallery, CICA Museum
March 12 – 16, 2025
2025.3.12 – 3.16
Future Food
Future Food is an ongoing project that explores consumer production in the face of the twenty-first century and the environmental landscape. As we move forward into the future, things are changing for the human race. Most live in an age of comfort, with expansive access to food and developing technology. However, this rate of domestic development can not last forever–our climate is changing, and with it our relationship with food and its production. Is it human’s destiny to find our way to the stars? If so, how will this change our relationship with things that brought us comfort back on Earth? Will things like food have the same value and status, or will we adapt and learn to survive in another way? What about things like diamonds, toys, novelties, status symbols? What will become of the things that bring us joy and pleasure? Will they still be relevant, or will global changes create a new social dynamic? This work aims to challenge the viewer with the reality of our changing environment and the common ground we share as human beings. The future of our planet can often be an uncomfortable subject, but it doesn’t have to be. As the technological landscape continues to develop, open dialogues about our future are crucial for a peaceful world. Future Food seeks to create a conversation with the audience about the common experience we all share, and the development of the world that we call home.
Laura Prochilo is a multidisciplinary visual artist from the New York City area. Work often refuses to be put in a single box, instead interplaying across a variety of different mediums. These include (but are not limited to) immersive installation, sound art, video art, collage/ mixed media, photography, sculpture, performance art, experimental film, and graphic design. Currently, their work spans four continents, with exhibitions, collaborations, and work in private collections in places such as Iceland, Italy, South Korea, mainland China, and the United Kingdom. As of 2024, the artist has recently completed a studio residency in Pragovka in the Czech Republic with work and research on time impermanence and climate change. A residency was also sponsored earlier this year at Make CIC in Liverpool, England, where research and work on Future Food was developed and exhibited as a shared experience. Work seeks to explore visually the sensation of moving forward through time. Time is an element that has complete control over our lives, though it is impossible to say what it is or where it comes from. No one knows where it goes or why it remains a constantly Ruid, ongoing process. Time rules our lives, it restricts our worlds. And yet no one can truly define it or explain how it works. Do we move through time, or does it move through us? How can we really capture anything when everything is Reeting?
