IN CONVERSATION WITH
↘ Arnaud Morand
Unfolding during Tokyo Art Week, ‘Future of Nostalgia’ brings together twenty artists from the AlUla Artist Residency Programme, curated by Arnaud Morand and Ali Alghazzawi. Presented by Arts AlUla and and the French Agency for AlUla Development (AFALULA), the exhibition explores how to inhabit time’s complexities, where memory, forgetting and imagination intertwine to shape the landscapes of tomorrow.
Rooted in the oasis of AlUla, the project reflects on heritage as a living palimpsest, where geology, archaeology and oral traditions meet new technologies. Between the traces of ancient civilizations and the ambitions of the present, Future of Nostalgia invites us to see time as layered rather than linear, asking not “What is it?” but “What if it were…?”
In conversation with Marc Beyney-Sonier, Arnaud Morand reflects on how the exhibition grew out of AlUla’s residency programme, now a catalyst for artistic experimentation and cross-cultural dialogue.
Artists featured:
Théo Mercier, Anhar Salem, Daniah AlSaleh, Hugo Servanin, Ittah Yoda, Louis-Cyprien Rials, Mohammad AlFaraj, Salomé Chatriot, Sara Favriau, Maitha Abdalla, Sarah Brahim, Abdessamad El Montassir, Ayman Zedani, Bianca Bondi & Guillaume Bouisset, Sofiane Si Merabet, Han Mengyun, Ugo Schiavi, Yasmina Benabderrahmane, Agnieszka Kurant, and M’hammed Kilito.
📍 Future of Nostalgia
November 5–16 2025
Warehouse TERRADA G3-6F, Shinagawa, Tokyo
