19/04/2026
At The Long Now at the Saatchi Gallery, some rooms invite reflection. Others stay with you long after you leave.
One installation surrounds you with a vast reflective surface made from recycled engine oil. The smell in the room is unmistakably strong — industrial, heavy — making the experience not only visual, but physical. You don’t just look at the work; you feel it in the air, in your breath, in your hesitation as you walk.
Another moment is impossible to forget: giant ants crawling across walls and branches — their bodies cast from human skulls. A haunting work by Rafael Gómezbarros, speaking of migration, displacement, and histories carried across borders. Beautiful from afar, unsettling up close — the kind of art that asks you to stay with discomfort rather than turn away.
Throughout the exhibition, past and future seem to exist in the same space. In the Post-Human room, artists imagine worlds shaped by automation and artificial intelligence, quietly asking what remains human when memory, labour, and even emotion begin to shift into technological systems.
What stayed with us most is the idea of time lived more consciously — resisting the disposable, choosing depth over speed.
A reminder that meaningful experiences — whether art, memory, or a small ritual at the end of the day — are meant to be savoured slowly. 🍨✨