Pure Crystal

The story of lost Atlantis appears throughout cultural narratives. Plato employed it as a cautionary tale about moral decline, while contemporary online shamans draw parallels to modern society. They claim Atlantean civilization derived power from fossil fuels and crystals used in Silicon Valley technologies. According to esoteric accounts, their excessive greed, environmental exploitation, and warfare prompted divine punishment through floods and earthquakes. Only pure crystals allegedly can prevent humanity's repetition of history.

This mythological framework addresses fake news, conspiracy theories, and digital tribalism proliferating online. The exhibition examines how and why contemporary myths emerge, and humanity's hunger for simplified narratives. During environmental crisis, aggressive capitalism, pandemic, and cultural decay, society requires myths to awaken collective consciousness—though conspiracy theorists and religious extremists unfortunately fill this void. Myths reject randomness, employing simple forms to explain existence and situate incomprehensible events within ordered worldviews.

The internet fragments all narratives into memes, creepypasta, and viral formats. Social media compresses time and proportion, conflating news with personal photos, jokes, and life advice while erasing boundaries between structured life compartments and blending past with present.

Featured artists explore non-temporal, fluid, and reproducible online archetypes. They mythologize contemporary developments, embedding modern narratives into historical structures and styles, combining pottery and fabric with internet aesthetics to create "museum exhibits" for post-apocalyptic display.