Polish artist Wilhelm Sasnal's new exhibition at Sadie Coles HQ in London presents a disorienting array of paintings. The works juxtapose disparate and often disturbing images, including a grotesque depiction of the Oval Office, portraits of his family, album art for the industrial band Throbbing Gristle, and a forest scene linked to the Holocaust, creating a deliberate sense of fragmentation and broken connections.
The exhibition, titled 'family/history,' critically examines our contemporary visual crisis. Sasnal uses cinematic montage techniques to mirror how social media collapses the boundary between personal life and historical atrocity, forcing uncomfortable associations and reflecting our scattered attention in a digital age where we are simultaneously absorbed in and distracted by the horrors unfolding on our screens.