For The World To Come
3/20/26-4/10/26
An exhibition by Emma Bergman
In For the World to Come, artist Emma Bergman uses the frame of a semi-fictional institution, the Department of Eschatology, to investigate contemporary views of potential apocalypse. The motivating question behind the work is a deceptively simple one: What will become of us? In a gallery that was once a dermatologist’s office, visitors pick up a ringing office phone, press a button to activate a recruitment video, recline in an examination chair for a guided imagination session, and fill out a survey to share their perspectives with the powers that be. Blending humor and despair, For the World to Come is one step toward bringing an artist/organizer mentality—generative, inquisitive, not limited by things as they are—to a wider public.