A Soft Apocalypse// Exhibition Design// Poster Design// 3D Design// Type Design// 2025
A Soft Apocalypse: The Future We Used to Depict
This project explores a contemporary nostalgia for the early 2000s—a moment shaped by the shadow of an anticipated apocalypse.
From the looming Y2K bug to the Mayan prophecy, the turn of the millennium was thick with predictions of humanity’s end. Yet when the moment passed, nothing happened—or perhaps 9/11 became the disaster we hadn’t foreseen.
This exhibition frames 2000s nostalgia as a form of retro-futurism: a remembrance of futures once imagined, shaped by early internet aesthetics, pixelated dreams, and the soft glow of a decentralized past.
The fears, anxieties, depressions—and even the strange flickers of hope—that once defined that era have quietly dissolved with time.
I call it a soft apocalypse: an end that never fully arrived, yet left behind a subtle, persistent imprint on our collective memory.
Exhibition Artists:
Simone Nicola Filippo
Andrew Park
Hankreavis
Miriam Beichert
Elly Minagawa
温柔的末日：我们曾描绘的未来
本项目探讨了当代人对2000年代初的怀旧情感——一个笼罩在“预期末日”阴影下的时代。
从千年虫危机（Y2K）到玛雅人的世界终结预言，千禧年之交充满了对人类毁灭的各种预测。然而当那个时刻真正来临时，世界并没有崩塌——或者说，“9·11”成了那个我们未曾预料到的灾难。
本次展览将人们对2000年代的怀旧视为一种“复古未来主义”的表现：对曾被想象过的未来的回忆，那些由早期互联网美学、像素化的梦想、以及去中心化数字时代的微光共同塑造的未来图景。
那个时代的恐惧、焦虑、抑郁，甚至一丝丝奇异的希望，早已随时间悄然消散。
我称之为“温柔的末日”：一个从未真正降临的结局，却在我们的集体记忆中留下了微妙而持久的印记。
参展艺术家：
Simone Nicola Filippo
Andrew Park
Hankreavis
Miriam Beichert
Elly Minagawa