The Dodd Galleries present Not Here / Not Now : a group exhibition that explores speculative fiction as a method of inquiry beyond prediction and escape. Whether through science fiction, fantasy, alternate histories, or wild conjectures, speculative fiction claims imagination as a critical practice, accessing an underrated possibility of art. The works gathered here—featuring emerging and mid-career...
The Dodd Galleries present Not Here / Not Now : a group exhibition that explores speculative fiction as a method of inquiry beyond prediction and escape. Whether through science fiction, fantasy, alternate histories, or wild conjectures, speculative fiction claims imagination as a critical practice, accessing an underrated possibility of art.
The works gathered here—featuring emerging and mid-career artists, practices which span multiple media and expose exterior currents of creative discourse—destabilize inherited categories of truth, time and nature, offering instead ambiguous artifacts, impossible rituals, and visual systems that resist closure. The exhibition presents a chorus of speculative gestures: half-built systems, false memories, invented organisms, and imagined rituals.
The exhibition unfolds in a nonlinear layout, prioritizing drift, intuition, and proximity over chronology or didactic themes. The gallery becomes a speculative zone and a fragmented landscape of unresolved logic that asks viewers not just what they see, but how they know. Not Here / Not Now is at odds with the architecture of the everyday—against the monotonous waves of nostalgia and pastiche—prioritizing friction over clarity.
For more information, contact Rachel Waldrop, Director and Curator, Dodd Galleries and Atheneum: rachel.waldrop@uga.edu. The Dodd Galleries are open M-Fri in the main Lamar Dodd School of Art building, from 9am-4:30pm. The Lamar Dodd School of Art is closed on weekends, University holidays, and home game days.
Not Here / Not Now is supported by UGA’s Franklin College of Arts and Sciences and The Lamar Dodd School of Art. For support opportunities, contact Grace Mercer, Development Associate: grace.mercer@uga.edu
