What will the world to come look like? Milan's Mudec and the monthly magazine IL try to imagine it with 50 photos

IL, the monthly magazine of the Sole 24 ore, and Mudec Photo are joining forces for a project entitled The World to Come.

It is a virtual gallery, available here, that brings together images taken by the 50 photographers who have joined the project and who want to offer their vision, precisely, of the world to come. But what exactly will it look like? The same, completely different from the current one, in some ways better, in others worse, with the same limitations, the same imperfection of the past, but perhaps some more awareness.

The world to come is a leap upward, arms free, into the sky. This is how Giovanni Gastel tells it, with his lens. For Rankin, on the other hand, it is a hand wrapped in a sterile glove, which, however, does not give up two large, bold, sardonic colored rings, and in a single image concentrates fear and beauty. Among the shots on display is also an unpublished photo that astronaut Paolo Nespoli wanted to give to IL. It shows the profile of the Earth from above, taken from the International Space Station, and in one shot are contained the sunrise and sunset. The cycle of a day and time beginning again. “I chose this photo because it’s all in an instant,” Nespoli explains. “There is light on the horizon, a new tomorrow awaits us.”

The exhibition is the special event behind the May issue of the monthly magazine IL, on newsstands from Thursday, April 30, with Il Sole 24 Ore, which involved 16 writers, philosophers, physicists, engineers, and demographers to try to imagine exclusively for Il what awaits us “next.” Alongside them, the visions and pre-visions of 50 photographers. A large, international project that from this week will become a digital exhibition curated by the magazine and realized with Mudec Photo.

You can also follow the birth and the backstage in a real path to the exhibition through the social channels of MUDEC and IL, which in these days is hosting on its Facebook and Instagram profile a series of video interviews - by the IL editorial staff - to the protagonists of this challenge that tells through images what is not yet there.

IL Editor-in-Chief Nicoletta Polla Mattiot interviews Gastel about his personal vision of the future, Alice Fiorilli recounts the “after” through the eyes of children, Max Cardelli tells in front of and behind the lens what it means to be at a crossroads, Giorgia Fiorio offers a meditation that follows the rhythm of the Zen garden.

Finally, the public will also be protagonists and can tell their vision of tomorrow on the social channels of MUDEC and IL. Everyone will be able to send their prediction of the ’world to come’ with a photo and a thought that will go into a gallery, a virtual wall that will virtually become the 51st shot, the one of the web community.

The exhibition catalog, edited by the monthly Sun 24 Ore, will be available for download from mid-May at https://ilmagazine.ilsole24ore.com/

What will the world to come look like? Milan's Mudec and the monthly magazine IL try to imagine it with 50 photos

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