Project “Lost future reimagined” involves an artistic search to envision a future despite the hopelessness caused by a sense of lost future in our time. Aishe Vejdani traces the sense of lost future in her familial past with sovietisation of Turkmenistan in 1920-1930 and her present with political, social and economic instability, energy and climate crisis. One can’t help but notice a sense of our present haunted by a lost/cancelled future. This sense of suspension or doom begs the question from each individual in how one can resist it. 

Within the limits of visual language, could imagining through color, form and sound slow the chaos of our past and present to help us access calm to walk the path of life one step at a time? A path that would cultivate inner wisdom and therefore imagination?