COLLAPSE: DATA.MODELS.WORLDS

The exhibition collapse: data.models.worlds. addresses the intensifying state of crisis shaping the contemporary world, examining the role of technology within it. Drawing on current debates around the possibilities and limitations of technological infrastructures, it explores their entanglement with social and ecological issues, from the past to the present. Latent Community will present Dark Source: Cloud Extraction (2026), commissioned by VEKTOR Athens and Error 417 Expectation Failed.

Cloud Extraction marks the first iteration of Dark Source, an ongoing critical research project on extractivism, unfolding as a poetic video essay by Latent Community that examines the transition from mineral extraction to data mining. The research takes place in the lignite villages of Western Macedonia, focusing on the social and ecological impacts of lignite extractive practices, the desertification of the region, and their long-term consequences on the landscape and local communities.

Collapse: data.models.worlds.
curated by Daphne Dragona, Katerina Gkoutziouli

Artists: Niki Danai Chania, Bethan Hughes, Vladan Joler/ Gordan Savičić/ Felix Stalder, Athina Koumparouli, Latent Community, Maria Mavropoulou, Juan Obando, Salvatore Vitale