Let's Get the F@!#k Outta Here

Let’s Get the F@!#k Outta Here arrives at a strange moment, one in which the sky seems to be asking for our attention. Reports of unidentified objects, pilot sightings, drones, disappearing aircraft, Mars missions, and renewed conversations about extraterrestrial life have pushed ideas once reserved for science fiction into everyday news. 

What once felt cinematic or absurd suddenly feels just plausible enough to make us look twice. The distance between what we imagine and what we believe might actually be out there has begun to narrow.

At the same time, life on Earth can feel increasingly heavy. Instability, uncertainty and the pressures of everyday existence have made the desire to escape feel less like an impossible idea. To look toward the stars and imagine another planet, another civilization, or simply somewhere else is no longer only an act of wonder-it can also be an expression of exhaustion, hope, fear, and desire. The idea of leaving Earth behind may sound impossible, but the impulse behind it is deeply human: the belief that beyond what we know, something different might still be possible.

This publication exists in that space between wonder and uncertainty, science and belief, reality and imagination. The works gathered here consider what it means to search the sky, to encounter the unknown, and to imagine a life beyond our own world. 

Perhaps the UFO, the distant planet, or the strange light above us is not only something we hope to discover, but a surface onto which we project our deepest questions about where we are, where we are going, and whether we truly want to stay.

Selected Artists /‍ ‍Aaron Blum, Aaron Canipe, Adam Thorman, Alex Horvath, Alex Zaf, Aline Smithson, Alvaro Munoz, Andrea Brogle, Andres Orozco, Andrew Seaman, Angel De Jesus Huerta, Annemarie Deckers, Anthony Carr, Antonio Rosato, Barbara Diener, Bill Finger, Brent Galen Adkins, Brooke Curwin, Cassandra Klos, Cassidy Brauner, Cate Smierciak, Constance Thalken, Daniel Bellman, David Kulik, David Merrill, EJ Dove, Ellen Sollod, Emma Kisiel, Evan Hume, Fatemeh Fani, Forrest Simmons, Gabriele Fossi, Georgia Matsamaki, Gerasimos Platanas, Heather Binns, Hillerbrand+Magsamen, Iciar Vega de Seoane, Jennifer Davies, Julien Hryshko, Julie Grace Immink, Kevin Gutoskey, Kevin Hoth, Kevin Lyle, Kimber Devaney, Kirsten Smith, Kody Zenger, Kris Davidson, Kristina Barker, Kryštof Korč, Leanne Bell Gonczarow, Lena Bils, Lindsay Godin, Marc Verbeek, Marco Gehlhar, Marina Bezrukova, Matt Gold, Nathan Gentry, Odysseas Chloridis, Oliver Raschka, Owen Davies, Patric DelCioppo, Paul Dolan, Petya Lukyanov, Rachel Hubbard, Shawna Gibbs, Sinziana Velicescu, Sonia Poirot, Stacy Arezou Mehrfar, Sylwia Ciszewska-Peciak, Tabitha Timm, Tod Kapke, Ugo Milano, Umberto Romagnoli, Urizen Freaza, Uta Genilke, Valentina Paparoni, Verónica Mar, William Joe Josephs Radford, Willow Jones, Willy Vecchiato, xtn widmer.