The Country of the Day After Tomorrow

The Country of the Day After Tomorrow is an exhibition that explores the possibility of imagining futures that are not immediate, alongside those who will be its protagonists. In Francesca Recchia’s curatorial vision, the exhibition becomes a terrain of relationships, a long-term political and human practice, a web of affections and responsibilities that develop over time, like a plot that grows silently but steadily. The title was devised by Recchia together with her four-year-old niece, Emma Snædis Recchia, who co-curated the exhibition, and alludes to another time, neither the present nor a utopian future, but the interval of ‘the day after tomorrow’: a horizon in which responsibility towards others is cultivated like an underground seed, invisible yet vital.

Working group: convened by Francesca Recchia (*1975, Avezzano, Italy) with Emma Snædis Recchia (*2020, Morges, Switzerland). With works by Stefano Graziani (*1971, Bologna, Italy), Lorenzo Tugnoli (*1979, Lugo, Italy), Aziz Hazara (*1992, Wardak, Afghanistan). Video conversation, Francesca Recchia with recordings by Sandi Hilal (*1973, Beit Sahour, Palestine) and Alessandro Petti (1973, Pescara, Italy), [founders of Decolonising Architecture Art Research *2007]; Ram Bhat (1981, New Delhi, India), Ekta Mittal (*1978, India), [founders of Maara *2008]; Sanjay Kak (*1958, Pune, India); Amanullah Mojadidi (*1971, Jacksonville, US); Jayaraj Sundaresan (*1972, Thrissur, India). Choreographic performance, Susanna Recchia (*1979, Avezzano, Italy) for Okwui Enwezor. Painted seashells and stones, Emma Snædis Recchia (*2020, Morges, Switzerland). Tactile book, Norwegian Afghanistan Committee (*Kabul, 2025). Stickers, Anonymous Witness (Afghanistan)