Black Mirror. The long shadow of the future

Although the dark/black mirror was originally a divination tool used in magical practices, today the concept of the black mirror mostly refers to the screens of digital devices, displays and their malfunctions, or the "freezing" of devices—in a figurative sense, the switched-off, dark screen shows us a distorted image of the present, thus functioning as a metaphor for technological self-reflection in our culture.

The exhibition, which can be considered the first stage of a longer and more comprehensive research project, draws primarily on the Ludwig Museum's collection, in addition to a few invited artists, and through this, it maps the dystopian artistic assumptions and thought experiments of the Hungarian creative milieu over the past decades.