Art 2026: A Breviary of an Imminent Crisis
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2026: A Breviary of an Imminent Crisis

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Collater.al Crew

For 2026, we envisioned a breviary about the end of the world as we know it. To us, what’s coming will be a year poised between prophecy and overthinking, observed with a certain lucid fatalism. Not so much to predict the future, but to acknowledge what we are already becoming. And we did so with the help of the illustrations by Nina Dzyvulska.

AI will stop being a distant promise and become a daily assistant—just invasive enough to be indispensable. We didn’t really want it, but now it’s here to stay: it organizes, suggests, decides alongside us.

We also imagined the first Commercial Space Colonies. Something like pop-up shops for luxury brands.

Meanwhile, back on Earth, privacy and the right to digital erasure will become the new Holy Grail. No more followers, but strategic disappearances. No more total exposure, but the possibility of deleting oneself—at least a little.

And perhaps the Sustainability Score will matter more than follower count (or at least we like to hope so), as if ethics could finally become a metric.

Humanoid robots, on the other hand, won’t make coffee. They’ll handle deliveries, drive cars, tidy our rooms. They’ll make everything more efficient, faster, quieter. Then, perhaps, they’ll rebel to found a utopian society, leaving us here wondering when we delegated imagination as well.

In this scenario, the only real currency we would want to spend remains curation: the ability to select, filter, choose. To say “no” to noise, slow down, and create content that still has a soul. If 2026 has a value worth defending, this is it.

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Written by Collater.al Crew

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