We will all become extinct. Reluctantly or joyfully.
Or perhaps on the contrary, we will all be saved. Thanks to the magnificent fates of science, or the advent of a god adapted to the standards of the Anthropocene.
The fifth edition of the Venice Design Biennial, Extinction / Salvation (GLASS), invites us to use extinction and salvation as polarised lenses through which to alternately observe contemporary design. Knowing that neither filter lets us see reality in all its wavelengths. And also knowing that the filters are interchangeable at will. Jumping from one side to the other, not fossilising, practising listening and ironic awareness, drawing up a manual of survival techniques and rewriting it again and again.

The designers featured in the exhibition: Anna Jožová, Anna Resei with IN Residence and Vetralia Collectible, Ans Bakker, Bloko 748, Elinor Haynes, Emilie Lemardeley, ERLANDS & BAI BAI, ·ET·TV·BRVTE·STVDIO·, Florian Post, Jessica Rimondi, Lucia Massari, Maria Koshenkova, Ruth Allen, Vesta Rugilė Nausėdaitė.