Speculative Futures

A DUAL EXHIBIT WITH ILEANA MORENO AND SAMUEL THURMAN AT MEMENTO ATLANTA

Speculative Futures explores how to channel spiritual symbolism, ancestral memory, and speculative design into transformative, future-facing forms. Through the divine geometries of Samuel Thurman’s 3D-printed lamps and the mythic-feminine hybridity of Ileana Moreno’s ritual-infused artworks, the exhibition presents a world where the sacred is reimagined—not as something of the past, but as a living, evolving presence. These artists collapse temporal boundaries by either fusing digital fabrication and ancient ritual, or sacred intention and pop femininity. Thurman and Moreno invite viewers into a meditative space of possibility. In this exhibition, relics are not fossils—they are blueprints for what’s to come.

ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Ileana Moreno (b. 1989, Mexico City, Mexico) is a Mexican artist who graduated from the Faculty of Art and Design, UNAM, with a specialty in pattern making and tailoring. She has participated in more than 20 solo and group exhibitions in Mexico and abroad. She was a fellow of the Young Creators Grant, Generation of the Creation, and the Cultural Projects Support System 2022–2023. She lives and works in CDMX.

Samuel Thurman (b. 1998, Lexington, KY) Through a synthesis of architectural rigor, spiritual inquiry, and technological innovation, Samuel Thurman's work seeks to reframe the built environment as both artifact and oracle. Thurman started his art studio in 2024 as a design student at Georgia Tech (M.Arch & M.S.U.D), where he engages in a research-driven design practice that explores the latent poetry within systems, structures, and materials.