Cosmin Haiaș’s exhibition, and we thought we’d last forever, opened at META Spatiu in Timișoara, unfolds as a speculative sci-fi odyssey in which fragility and permanence intertwine. In his practice, Cosmin Haiaș constructs worlds that are both familiar and foreign, where the remnants of the present become raw material for imagining possible futures.
This project navigates temporal disjunctions—ruins of civilizations yet to come, fragments of human memory drifting through cosmic landscapes, echoes of technologies no longer in use. The exhibition is less a static presentation and more a narrative space, where objects and images resonate with one another to evoke the uncertainty of survival and the persistence of imagination.
Curated by Mirela Stoeac-Vlăduți, the exhibition traces the boundaries between the human and the post-human, permanence and disappearance, utopia and consequence. It stages a world in which the idea of “forever” dissolves into speculation, inviting viewers to consider what remains when the horizon of time collapses.
Both intimate and expansive, and we thought we’d last forever invites visitors into an odyssey that is at once a reflection and a premonition—a meditation on endings, transformations, and the fragile architectures of hope.
On Saturday, November 29, at 12:00 p.m., the public is invited to a guided tour together with artist Cosmin Haiaș and curator Mirela Stoeac-Vlăduți.
The event offers a direct analysis of the exhibition’s conceptual framework and of the ways in which Cosmin Haiaș employs artistic and scientific tools to investigate the limits of knowledge, the fragility of the human species, and the continuities between material culture and speculative imaginaries. The tour, led in collaboration with curator Mirela Stoeac-Vlăduți, will address the structure of the exhibition, its relationship to the Fermi paradox and the Great Filter theory, as well as the mechanisms through which the artist translates these hypotheses into hybrid installations and objects.
The meeting provides a context for discussing the artist’s working methods, the ways in which historical, technological, and visual elements are recontextualized, and how the exhibition constructs a reflective space on contemporary vulnerabilities.
Participants are invited to directly examine the processes, materials, and relationships that structure the exhibition and to take part in a dialogue regarding the relevance of these themes in the current context.
and we thought we’d last forever by Cosmin Haiaș can be visited from Wednesday to Friday, between 2:00–6:00 p.m., and on Saturday, between 12:00–6:00 p.m.
