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The exhibition of Marek Meduna (1974, Prague) is dealing with figuration underlining the ambivalent disorienting impact of images. Chain of stereotypes abstracted from western mass media, stylistically somewhere between educational illustration and caricature cartoon, urges the viewer with the impossibility of coherent interpretation. Extremely sexualised, racist, xenophobic, islamophobic, obscene and generally cliched motifs oscillates in between repulsion and fascination. The feeling of aversion, yet the impossibility of avert one’s eyes, is further accelerated with the depiction of …