"Minimization of Transformation Needs" Mateusz Hadaś, Marcin Pietrucin ✨ Opening: 11/12/2025, 19:00 🗓️ Exhibition: 11/12/2025—25/01/2026 The exhibition takes place as part of the Project Room program and is presented in the room dedicated to this cycle. Project Room curator: Krystyna Różańska — Gorgolewska Exhibition curator: Janek Owczarek _______ Between an educational rhyme and a burning transformer – this is where the story about the real logic of contemporary technical systems begins. The exhibition by Mateusz Hadaś and Marcin Pietrucin, Minimization of Transformation Needs, reveals the hidden cost of electricity – material, imaginary, and potentially political. The artists show that behind the technocratic language of optimization lies a technical system that, by its very nature, contains the possibility of failure and catastrophe. What is presented in official narratives as neutral, rational engineering is in reality based on a constant balancing act between control and the possibility of a short circuit. The central video, depicting a burning transformer station juxtaposed with children's rhymes about electricity, highlights this duality: educational narrative versus the real risk inherent in technology. The accompanying objects and installations emphasize the absurdity and fragility of systems that are supposed to guarantee us a sense of security. In contrast to the growing anxiety, the artists create a user zone with a coffee machine and tables – a place for a short rest and direct, essential contact with art. This seemingly ordinary space becomes a realistic commentary on our daily interaction with infrastructure and culture: we use them, rarely considering their hidden logic.
