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'Future Now' opens at the Portland Art Museum |
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EKTO One Robotic VR boots, 2021 Collection of Brad Factor Courtesy American Federation of Arts and the Bata Shoe Museum.
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PORTLAND, OR.- Future Now: Virtual Sneakers to Cutting-Edge Kicks is a groundbreaking new exhibition that features nearly 60 futuristic footwear designs pushing the boundaries of what footwear can be.
Featuring an incredible mix of fashion, design, gaming, new media, architecture, and material arts as well as sustainable and collaborative practices, the exhibition features work by designers as diverse as Rem D. Koolhaas and Zaha Hadid, innovators Mr. Bailey and Salehe Bembury, as well as designs made in collaboration with fashion icons Rick Owens, Stella McCartney, and Yohji Yamamoto, and top gaming companies including PlayStation, EA Sports, and more.
The future is always being shaped by the present. The exhibition includes many incredible and innovative new footwear designs that are promising to transform what we will wear tomorrow. From sneakers created to address issues related to sustainability and inclusion to shoes that blur the line between the real world and the metaverse, this exhibition explores how forward-looking creators are helping us step into the future. Elizabeth Semmelhack, Director and Senior Curator, Bata Shoe Museum
Future Now features sections exploring Innovation, Sustainability, Transformative, and Virtual shoes, and includes digitally designed and 3D-printed shoes, sneakers made from mushroom leather and reclaimed ocean plastics, and footwear created for the metaverse. The ahead-of-its-time Nike Mag, conceived for Back to the Future Part II by Portlands own Tinker Hatfield, will also be on display, as well as recent innovators MSCHFs Big Red Boots and EKTO VRs One Robotic Boots and artist collaborations like Takashi Murakami x RTFKT.
This exhibition expands the possibilities of what footwear design can be, presenting the future right at our feet, says Amy Dotson, Director of PAM CUT and Curator of Film & New Media for Portland Art Museum. The show is a love letter to all of the artists, storytellers, designers and visionaries who dare to think differentlymany who live and work right here in Portland, the shoe capital of the United States.
Featuring wildly mold-breaking exhibition design by local female-driven Osmose Designwhose work has been featured in The New York Times and Architectural Digest and includes the recent reimagining of PAM CUTs Tomorrow Theaterthis show is an incredible opportunity to set foot into a world of cutting edge thinking around new artistic practices and technology that are revolutionizing our tomorrow.
Unique to Portland Art Museums presentation of the exhibition is a collaboration with Doernbecher Freestyle, celebrating its 20th year of partnership between OHSU Doernbecher Childrens Hospital and NIKE, Inc. This partnership pairs Doernbecher patient-designers with NIKE, Inc. product creation employees to create footwear that brings each patients vision and story to life with 100% of the profits from retail sales donated to the childrens hospital.
Future Now is curated by Elizabeth Semmelhack, Director and Senior Curator, Bata Shoe Museum, and Curated for PAM by Amy Dotson, Director PAM CUT// Center for an Untold Tomorrow and Curator, Film and New Media. The exhibition is co-organized by the American Federation of Arts and the Bata Shoe Museum.
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