We are being increasingly reshaped through technological systems of control. These systems are embedded in the very act of production itself, via interfaces, metrics, microtrends, and coercive mechanisms of visibility. We are only allowed to dream what the algorithm reveals.
What architectures and logics are we being confronted with in order to become?
A speculative intervention into the apparatuses that urge us to “become our true selves.”
Lo-fi visual languages, glitch aesthetics, and post-ironic detachment capture past imaginaries that now exist merely as digital residues. These works do not offer a unified viewpoint, but instead reflect a shared condition: the self as interface, subjectivity as infrastructure. In this mode, identity is not so much expressed as it is performed and quantified. Behavior that compels the self to circulate across platforms, constantly recalibrated by algorithmic feedback. The self becomes illegible, distorted, resisting its own deciphering.
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¹ The exhibition title is taken from a viral video featuring Jennifer Lopez, referencing the paradoxical neoliberal ideal of limitless human potential, a notion instilled in us from early adolescence.https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Cngvj0jLDWs
The author pf the text is the curator Kryštof Nosek aka Kindred
Exhibition architecture: Lucie Sasínová a Jakub Kamínek
Graphic design: Prokhor Maserov
