Many of the utopian projects of modernity have survived only as fragments and today appear 'unfinished'. Many of the material structures, forms and achievements we associate with concepts of modernity seem to be disappearing amid present-day transformation processes. Yet at the same time, the real and conceptual spaces of modernity - its aesthetic and political structures and ideas - continue to be a major preoccupation of numerous projects taking place in the artistic realm and beyond, and also give rise to conflicting projections. Is modernity our antiquity?

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