“XYZ. Back to the Future” takes shape as a reference network through which we critically relate to our fragmented present and to the myth of the progressive future. In a context where time seems to flow along an imaginary axis from a fixed point toward a promised difference, the exhibition highlights the paradox of the contemporary age: the future becomes a reiteration of the past, a loop in which capitalist promises repeat themselves in new forms without truly generating new horizons. Artists Dan Cebotari, Dumitrița Gurău, Cătălin Marinescu, Radu Marțin, Mihai Savin, and Radu-Mihai Tănasă explore this fragmented and self-referential temporal condition, inviting us to discover a palimpsest composed of photographs, objects, and gestures that merge the memory of the communist era with current everyday experiences. Through this juxtaposition, the exhibition undermines the linearity of teleological progress and sheds light on the fragility of “progress” as illusion.