The vicious cycle of man-made and repeated disasters for thousands of years has brought us to a standstill and undermined our faith in humanity and the future. Has the civilizational development of humanism really taken place? Or will the primitive human instincts of domination, control and possession not be tamed even in the face of the annihilation of humanity and the Earth? The works presented in the exhibition reflect the widespread sense of the imminent self-destruction of the human race as a result of the irreversible consequences of environmental degradation, the nuclear threat and the war in Ukraine, which in fact has a broad impact on the functioning of the entire world. Yet the authors of the works presented in the exhibition do not remain passive observers. The artists analyze the intersections of historical memory and socio-political realities of the present, while rejecting individual melancholy in favor of multidimensional forms of criticism, resistance and indifference. The exhibition as a whole is devoid of utopian illusions framed by anthropocentric, modern logic, and instead relies on a dystopian perspective and the recognition that coexistence is inherently in conflict. How we use this conflictual essence of coexistence to solve the environmental and humanitarian crises we face today will largely determine the future in which we live.

Oksana Karpovets

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Artists participating in the exhibition:

Tereza Barabash, Yuriy Bolsa, Grzegorz Bożek, Piotr Desperak, Alevtina Kakhidze, Ola Kozioł & Suavas Lewy, Myro Klochko & Anatoliy Tatarenko, Paweł Korbus, Dmytro Krasnyi, Zdzisław Pacholski, Sergiy Petlyuk, Andriy Rachinskiy & Daniil Revkovskiy, Vasyl Savchenko, Vahram Mkhitaryan, Ewa Zarzycka, Krzysztof Zając.