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Techno-utopian dreams and visual arcades. Magical portals, data collected to sow confusion, speaking architectures, crumbling walls, nomadic peoples that become sedentary, or the political dimension of illness and pain. This is the future outlined by the 23rd edition of the award generations from the Montemadrid Foundation and which we can see in the basement of La Casa Encendida. Eight projects in which it is committed to a dystopian and three-dimensional future.

Forced to coexist in the same space, pieces of different nature tend to result in exhibitions, the prize-winning ones, being uncomfortable, articulated as a capricious arrangement of objects in the space. In this case, this conflict is diluted thanks to the fact that seven of the eight projects are sculptural and installation and form an ecosystem of related themes and concerns. There is only one video installation, landing stripabout the sedentary lifestyle of nomadic tribes in Ecuador de José M. Avilés.

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The artists millennial generation marked by the pandemic find in dystopia, speculative scenarios, Big Data and human-machine hybrids the narratives that satisfy uncertainty and fears of a future that is, to say the least, dangerous. The future imagined by YE$Si PERSE in New Dark Age is a cybermedieval virtual reality installation and video game about the economyan economic system based on faith in the value of capital, and technofeudalism, large technology corporations like Google or Amazon that behave like nation states.

Mónica Planes in 'Hacia con el armo (MURO)' distorts the idea of a wall by applying the methodology of reinforced concrete to straw, creating soft walls that twist and fall apart

An exciting speech for a project with dubious gameplay and no instructions in which the user wanders through five virtual worlds. Gabriel Pericas uses Big Data, the data collection system called monitoringto create bronze sculptures based on the analytical observation of the movements extracted from the game of trilo, these glasses that move frantically to hide the ball, which tell us about the control of the circulation of objects.

sea warrior in an eternal journey alludes to a scenario that combines genetic manipulation with the obsolescence of materials and resources, in blown glass pieces that contrast the natural and the artificial.

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Essentially sculptural are the pieces of mercedes pepper that seem to melt; its formwork of industrial modular forms made from beeswax and paraffin titled Surface neutral they talk about scale, the body and the domestic. Also Fuentesal Arenillas in put a hat cushion deconstructs architecture as isolation to create soft textile devices, connectors of space like throats through which stories slip.

Monica Aviões in Towards with the arm (WALL) distorts the idea of a wall by applying the methodology of reinforced concrete to straw, creating soft walls that twist and undo.

Finally, the future (or lack thereof), of infusion room of a hospital, is the moving proposal of Pearl Zuniga. Cancer and its spaces, interposed by small visual poems that comprise illness as the only option to stay aliveas the only possibility of inhabiting the future, a future that is undoubtedly uncertain and dangerous.