On 12 September 2025, Émile Servan-Schreiber shared a last-month reminder for Ce que l’horizon promet, an exhibition at Fondation groupe EDF in Paris. The show asked how people live with an unknown future, bringing artistic interpretations into conversation with scientific accounts of prediction. Servan-Schreiber appeared among its video interviewees, alongside mathematician Cédric Villani and psychiatrist and writer Raphaël Gaillard.
The official press release gives the exhibition dates as 12 March to 28 September 2025. Its theme was the future as both a subject of belief and an object of calculation. Placing art alongside expert interviews invited visitors to consider how those approaches shape expectations and choices.
A future between belief and calculation
The opening account by Alexandre Perra, reshared on 13 March, described 27 French and international artists. It named Gérald Bronner for the scientific curatorship, assisted by Erell Guégan, with Samantha Barroero and Nathalie Bazoche responsible for the artistic side. The official release confirms the curatorial team and the three expert interviews.
A post reshared on 26 March credited Guégan with interviewing the experts. By September, Perra’s reminder described their videos as a scientific counterpoint on AI and predictability. He presented the artworks as mirrors of visitors’ beliefs and ways of anticipating, rather than solutions to the uncertainty of the future. Free entry, reservations and a virtual visit were part of the invitation.
Horizon 2100 visualised a visitor’s imagination
The installation at the entrance invited visitors to describe their vision of life in 2100 and receive an AI-generated image. EDF’s R&D account names it Horizon 2100 and credits a collaboration with Bronner. The device rendered a visitor’s expressed vision. The installation visualised an imagined future; it did not attach a probability to that future.
That distinction gives the exhibition a useful place in a forecasting journal. Imagining a future helps reveal hopes and fears; estimating its likelihood is a further task. The journal’s long-range forecast about belief in God in 2100 offers a different example of handling a distant horizon, with an explicit question and uncertainty.
