One Hundred Thousand Years Later

”One Hundred Thousand Years Later” is a journey into reverse time and archaeology, where instead of uncovering the past, the future is revealed. Inch by inch, year by year, we descend into interwoven futures and possible possibilities. Traces of humanity gradually erode out of view, and the remaining fragments tell of an era where biology gives way to machines and computation, until only pure information remains.

The world of ”One Hundred Thousand Years Later” consists of virtual-, synthetic-, and generative imagery. The real, the true-to-life, and the virtually constructed intertwine, forming metaphysical non-places and non-objects – places and things that could have been or might come to be. The imagery is based on the aesthetics of traditional photography, but the static, two-dimensional image is extended with moving images. This expanded imagery enables the contemplation of the nature of contemporary photography: Where does a photograph begin, and where does it end?

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