While slop appears inherently meaningless, its application is highly strategic. It would be a mistake to dismiss slop as nothing but lazy internet hallucinations: It has already turned into flesh: A White House spokeswoman replies to a journalist with “your mom”; a convict-president kidnaps another president; a third guy considers kidnapping a chancellor all while more coke-stuffed people crash out over the audacity to call plant-based patties burgers. What sounds like the beginning of a 6th-grader Wattpad fanfic is the current geopolitical slop landscape.

In the era of never-before-seen possibilities of accountability, slop is a weapon, just like “Shock and awe”, a military strategy developed in 1996 based on overwhelming and paralyzing the enemy through spectacular display of power. Sounds familiar? We are sooo fucking back to the future: Art and life turning sloppy happened already. When reality seemed to generate infinite slop of brutality and chaos, art replied with more slop: Dada occupied the left wing while Futurism accommodated itself in the right.

— Excerpt of the exhibition text by Jennifer Braun