Ève Cadieux "J’ai Vu le Futur / I Have Seen the Future"
Moment Contemporary Art Center
Until Jan 18
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Ève Cadieux
MOMENT Contemporary Art Center is pleased to present J’ai vu le futur / I Have Seen the Future, the first solo exhibition in Asia by Canadian photographer Ève Cadieux, on view from Friday, October 17, 2025, to Sunday, January 18, 2026.Taking the closure of Expo 2025 Osaka, Kansai as a timely occasion, this exhibition reconsiders the impact that world’s fairs have had on society.
Born in Montréal and based in Québec City, Ève Cadieux has engaged in a critical photographic practice for over 25 years, exploring themes such as memory, materiality, and consumer culture.On view in this exhibition is her long-term and emblematic series I Have Seen the Future, developed over more than a decade. Inspired by a childhood visit to the site of Expo 67 in Montréal, Cadieux has travelled the world to photograph the remnants of former World’s Fair sites.
These former Expo grounds—once staged as “festivals of the future”—now exist in various forms: some have been repurposed for local use, others abandoned and left to decay, and some continue to search for new functions.Regardless of how they’ve adapted over time, each site exists in contradiction to the visions of the “future” once projected onto them.
In this series, Cadieux positions these sites as “futures that never came to be.” Her work not only critiques accelerating anthropocentrism and global socio-economic inequality but also points to the failure of the very concept of a shared human “future” as a viable ideological construct.
By documenting the afterlives of events that once sought to represent human progress and peace, Cadieux invites us to reconsider our present—lived among the ruins of futures left behind.
Born in Montréal and based in Québec City, Ève Cadieux has engaged in a critical photographic practice for over 25 years, exploring themes such as memory, materiality, and consumer culture.On view in this exhibition is her long-term and emblematic series I Have Seen the Future, developed over more than a decade. Inspired by a childhood visit to the site of Expo 67 in Montréal, Cadieux has travelled the world to photograph the remnants of former World’s Fair sites.
These former Expo grounds—once staged as “festivals of the future”—now exist in various forms: some have been repurposed for local use, others abandoned and left to decay, and some continue to search for new functions.Regardless of how they’ve adapted over time, each site exists in contradiction to the visions of the “future” once projected onto them.
In this series, Cadieux positions these sites as “futures that never came to be.” Her work not only critiques accelerating anthropocentrism and global socio-economic inequality but also points to the failure of the very concept of a shared human “future” as a viable ideological construct.
By documenting the afterlives of events that once sought to represent human progress and peace, Cadieux invites us to reconsider our present—lived among the ruins of futures left behind.
Schedule Now in session | Oct 17 (Fri) 2025-Jan 18 (Sun) 2026 42 days left Opening Hours Information
Opening Reception Oct 17 (Fri) 2025 14:00 - 19:00 | ||||
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| Fee | Free | ||||
| Website | https://momentcac.jp/exhibition-4 | ||||
| Venue | Moment Contemporary Art Center https://momentcac.jp/ | ||||
| Location | 1F Marushin Bldg., 481-1-1 Sanjo-cho, Nara-shi, Nara 630-8244 | ||||
| Access | 5 minute walk from the East exit of JR Nara Station, 8 minute walk from exit 7 at Kintetsu Nara Station on the Kintetsu Nara line. | ||||
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