The Hollow Bite
25th April - 18th May 2025
Opening: THU 24.4, 18H-22H ACUD Galerie

Opening Hours:
THU - SUN
15H – 19H

Participating artists:
Demon Lovers Inc. , Kea Bolenz, Latefa Wiersch, Nina Frommelt, Ryo Koike, Tobi Keck, Tibor Koehne & Laurids Koehne

An apple is often a symbol of desire, knowledge, and seduction - a seductive promise of wholeness. Yet, in The Hollow Bite, this image is turned inside out: instead of an apple being consumed, it is the apple that devours. The worm - an agent of decay, an uninvited guest -becomes the protagonist, unsettling the narrative of consumption and possession. What happens when the object of our longing is already claimed by something unseen?

This exhibition explores the ways in which bodies, objects, and ideologies are consumed and repurposed within contemporary global capitalism. The parasite occurs as a metaphor for contemporary power relations.

In his seminal text The Parasite(1980), Michel Serres argues that the parasite is not merely a destructive force but a system of relation - a model of exchange that disrupts linear hierarchies. This exhibition expands on Serres’ notion, revealing how contemporary consumer culture is structured around unseen parasites: the insatiable algorithms, the fetishized objects, the viral economies of attention. Who consumes whom in a system where desire is manufactured, circulated, and ultimately devoured?

In an era of viral marketing, meme economies, and hyper-branded identities, pop culture operates as a self-replicating parasite, feeding on our desires while dictating them in turn. The apple - ripe, glossy - mirrors the way consumer objects promise satisfaction while simultaneously consuming the consumer.

We are all spinning in a spectacle of decay.

Curated by ACUD Galerie team:
Alžběta Čermáková, Gabriela Matuszewska & Colette Patterson

Image credit:
Demon Lovers Inc.