Ève Cadieux　J’AI VU LE FUTUR / I HAVE SEEN THE FUTURE

Period｜2025.10.17 (Fri) – 1.18, 2026 (Sun)
Location｜MOMENT Contemporary Art Center *Open 14:00–19:00 on opening day only
Opening Hours｜11:00 – 19:00
Closed｜Mondays, Tuesdays, and during the New Year holidays
Organized by MUZ ART PRODUCE
In cooperation with Délégation générale du Québec à Tokyo
Special cooperation from Mori Manufacturing Research and Technology Foundation
Admission Free
Opening Reception｜October 17 (Fri) 14:00 ‒ 19:00

MOMENT Contemporary Art Center is pleased to present J’ai vu le futur / I Have Seen the Future, the first solo exhibition in Asia by Canadian photographer Ève Cadieux, on view from Friday, October 17, 2025, to Sunday, January 18, 2026.Taking the closure of Expo 2025 Osaka, Kansai as a timely occasion, this exhibition reconsiders the impact that world’s fairs have had on society.

Born in Montréal and based in Québec City, Ève Cadieux has engaged in a critical photographic practice for over 25 years, focusing on the memories embedded in objects and exploring themes of materiality and consumer culture. On view in this exhibition is her long-term and emblematic series I Have Seen the Future, developed over more than a decade. Inspired by a childhood visit to the site of Expo 67 in Montréal, Cadieux has travelled the world to photograph the remnants of former World’s Fair sites.

These former Expo grounds—once staged as “festivals of the future”—now exist in various forms: some have been repurposed for local use, others abandoned and left to decay, and some continue to search for new functions.Regardless of how they’ve adapted over time, each site exists in contradiction to the visions of the “future” once projected onto them.

In this series, Cadieux positions these sites as “futures that never came to be.” Her work not only critiques accelerating anthropocentrism and global socio-economic inequality but also points to the failure of the very concept of a shared human “future” as a viable ideological construct.

By documenting the afterlives of events that once sought to represent human progress and peace, Cadieux invites us to reconsider our present—lived among the ruins of futures left behind.

Ève Cadieux
Born in Montreal and based in Québec City, Ève Cadieux has pursued a critical photographic practice addressing consumer society for over 25 years. She received her Master’s degree in Visual Arts and Art History from the Université de Montréal in 1999. Her ongoing series J’ai vu le futur has been exhibited in various locations—including at the Atomium in Brussels (2023–24)—and continues to evolve with the support of the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec(Le CALQ). 

Notable recent exhibitions include the solo show J’ai vu le futur (2023–24, Atomium, Brussels), the retrospective TOUTES CES CHOSES (2017, Centre d’exposition de l’Université de Montréal; 2019, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières), and Empreintes et dérivés (2019, Galerie•a). Her work is held in numerous public and private collections, including the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, the Musée d’art de Joliette, and the Museo de Arte Eduardo Minnicelli (Argentina). In addition to her artistic practice, Cadieux is active in education and curatorial work, and in 2021 she published her first artist monograph, Le Collectoir.

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