Nostalgia for the Future is not just a book. It is a crack in time, a vibration that precedes the homonymous exhibition opening at La Capella on October 23.
This event marks its first public appearance: the presentation of an interactive book that imagines possible futures from worlds already resonating in the present. Through narratives woven with speculative science fiction, technopoetic critique, and living archives, the book offers a journey through realities where water remembers, bacteria engage in dialogue, and sound weaves memory. This literary prequel not only accompanies the exhibition: it precedes it, prefigures it, and summons it.
Because to inhabit other worlds, we must first tell their stories.
And for them to exist, we must imagine they have already been here.
Nostalgia for the Future transforms the curatorial discourse into an interactive fiction, a “choose-your-own-adventure” that translates the exhibition’s core themes into narrative decisions. Each choice leads the reader through thematic routes that preview the artworks and concepts they will later encounter in the gallery, inviting them to inhabit these spaces from within.
The project expands beyond the book through an urban campaign: a series of stickers distributed across the city that act as portals. By scanning them, the public gains access to instructions for obtaining the book for free and to the announcement for the exhibition.
Thus, the methodology articulates curation, fiction, and mediation, generating a transmedia journey that prepares the visitor for the exhibition experience and turns reading, the city, and the exhibition into a single, unified narrative space.
