“THE DISTRACTED MAN”

Art-centre Exposed and Artocratia Gallery present “The Distracted Man” — a large-scale artistic exploration of one of the new yet fundamental human issues of our time.

“Instead of a hat, as he walked along, he put a frying pan on his head” — today, this line sounds less like a cheerful poem about a forgetful person and more like an artificial intelligence glitch affecting our perception of reality. Where we once laughed, we now ask: “So this is possible?”

Modern man increasingly resembles “the distracted man.” What only recently was considered a fashionable diagnosis — ADHD — is becoming part of the norm. Immersed in an endless flow of information, a person gradually loses the ability to feel themselves, to truly experience events, and to build cause-and-effect connections. They seem to float in a cloud of random phrases, incidents, fragments of news, and fleeting acquaintances.

Information appears and is almost immediately forgotten. A person loses contact with the body, with the world, and with themselves. Distraction and anxiety take the place of awareness.

Artists:

Marina Astakhova

Elmira Safina

Victoria Utikalko

Justina Komissarova

Alsu Amri

Mikhail Molochnikov

Antonina Fatkhullina

Oleg Semenovykh

Ilya Ovsyannikov

Lyudmila Beresneva

Alexey Gan

Yulia Abzaltdinova

Lo Si

Daniil Obmanets

Polina Tolstonozhenko

Lucas Bononi

Unknown Artist, Indonesia / Bali

Mario Vidal Lozano

James Sparshatt

Lilia Kovalevskaya

Pavel Belan

Stepan Lysenko

Vasilissa Savrasova

Ksyusha Vishnevskaya

The exhibition is open to visitors from October 3 to November 6.

Opening hours:

Tuesday–Saturday, 13:00–20:00

Sunday and Monday by appointment.