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OPENING | The Shock Workers of a New Horror
Event by: Display
Location: Display, Dittrichova 337, Praha 2
Talks & discussions, Exhibitions
About event
✧ Join us at Display Gallery for the opening of our next exhibition, The Shock Workers of a New Horror. / ✧ We cordially invite you to the opening of the new exhibition The Shock Workers of a New Horror.
✧ The exhibition explores the return of heavy machinery and infrastructural systems to the center of our attention at a time when digital ideology promised their invisibility and “weightlessness.” Against the backdrop of contemporary wars, ecological crises, and the collapse of sustainable futures, machines re-emerge as ambivalent symbols of power, destruction, and anxiety. The project traces how technology appears in contemporary visual culture as an "infrastructural specter" of modernity, bringing materiality, labor, and violence back into view.
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✧ The exhibition explores the return of heavy technology and infrastructure systems to the center of our attention at a time when digital ideology promised their invisibility and "weightlessness". Against the backdrop of current war conflicts, ecological crises and the disintegration of ideas about a sustainable future, machines reappear as ambivalent symbols of power, destruction and anxiety. The project observes how technologies appear in contemporary images as "infrastructural ghosts" of modernity and make visible again the materiality, work and violence behind the seemingly immaterial world of digital networks.
✧ Exhibiting Artists: Anna Engelhardt & Mark Cinkevich, Šimon Chlouba, Polina Davydenko, Ján Gasparovic, Mohamed Yaghi, Andrew Roberts, Matouš Strelec
✧ Curator: Jiří Sirůček
✧ Graphic: Veronika Levitner, Šimon Levitner, Olbram Pavlíček
🗓️ 25.6.2026 | 18:00
📍Display, �Dittrichova 9/337�, 120 00, Prague 2
✧ The exhibition explores the return of heavy machinery and infrastructural systems to the center of our attention at a time when digital ideology promised their invisibility and “weightlessness.” Against the backdrop of contemporary wars, ecological crises, and the collapse of sustainable futures, machines re-emerge as ambivalent symbols of power, destruction, and anxiety. The project traces how technology appears in contemporary visual culture as an "infrastructural specter" of modernity, bringing materiality, labor, and violence back into view.
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✧ The exhibition explores the return of heavy technology and infrastructure systems to the center of our attention at a time when digital ideology promised their invisibility and "weightlessness". Against the backdrop of current war conflicts, ecological crises and the disintegration of ideas about a sustainable future, machines reappear as ambivalent symbols of power, destruction and anxiety. The project observes how technologies appear in contemporary images as "infrastructural ghosts" of modernity and make visible again the materiality, work and violence behind the seemingly immaterial world of digital networks.
✧ Exhibiting Artists: Anna Engelhardt & Mark Cinkevich, Šimon Chlouba, Polina Davydenko, Ján Gasparovic, Mohamed Yaghi, Andrew Roberts, Matouš Strelec
✧ Curator: Jiří Sirůček
✧ Graphic: Veronika Levitner, Šimon Levitner, Olbram Pavlíček
🗓️ 25.6.2026 | 18:00
📍Display, �Dittrichova 9/337�, 120 00, Prague 2