There Is No Way To Get the Hell Out of Here is a group exhibition offering a critical reflection on the contemporary political and technological climate, as well as on a question that increasingly permeates everyday life: what kind of future is currently being constructed, and who will be able to inhabit it? In the context of accelerated technological development, deepening social inequalities, and ongoing political and ecological crises, narratives of progress increasingly take the form of promises detached from responsibility.
The exhibition presents new sculptural works by Mikołaj Sobotka, which engage with visions of technological apocalypse; a series of printed flags by the American artist Phil America, depicting technological devices used within the oppressive prison system of the United States; paintings by Iza Opiełka, whose formal language derives from rendered visual codes characteristic of social media platforms; as well as an installation and a video essay by the artist duo Xtreme Girl (Lena Peplińska and Laura Radzewicz).
Each of the invited artists addresses, in their own way, the anxiety surrounding technology—an anxiety rooted in the industrial era and intensified by contemporary digital capitalism. Technology is not presented as a neutral infrastructure, but as a belief system saturated with promises of transcendence, control, and perpetual growth. Rather than proposing solutions, There Is No Way To Get the Hell Out of Here confronts viewers with the psychological, symbolic, and ideological structures that sustain contemporary faith in technology, raising questions about its mythological consequences and the cost of this belief—paid above all by marginalized communities.
Curated by Martyna Stopyra