This article engages with the creative work of the duo of artists Jennifer Allora (b. 1974) and Guillermo Calzadilla (b. 1971), attempting to make sense of the consequences and afterlives of modernism, which is to say, with the ways modernist aesthetics shape our present. My main aim is to expand on debates on aesthetic modernism to address the implications of the modern and colonial project as a planetary endeavor, one that is not limited to human beings and one that affects (and is affected by) the ebbs and flows of finance and debt, and also by energy, multispecies displacements, and climate colonialism. This is particularly important nowadays, when the possibility of a generic crisis looms over and conditions our sociopolitical imagination at a planetary scale.