Cut Me Up Issue 5: Envisioning Utopia, curated by Valerie Hegarty, is a selection of 18 artworks that unearth optimistic possibilities from yesterday’s shattered world. These artists consider contemporary problems and create imaginative solutions, endeavoring to find the seeds for a hopeful tomorrow.
“For Cut Me Up Issue 5, artists tackled a range of contemporary problems such as climate change, the housing crisis, mental health, the novel corona virus, food distribution and spiritual bankruptcy in order to create imaginative solutions that are ripe with optimistic possibility. These dynamic collages of future utopias hint at balanced and ideal worlds where nature is protected and flourishing, housing expands exponentially, working systems cleanse resources, a vaccine is discovered and celebrated and Adam and Eve return to make a new choice: the tree of life. The artists’ collages of utopian worlds illustrate that the future’s solutions already exist at our fingertips, if their constituent parts can be salvaged, repaired and recombined from our current world’s ruin.” Valerie Hegarty