Anna Černíková's First Solo Show at ETC. Gallery Explores Body as Machine

ETC. gallery presents a guided tour and artist talk with Anna Černíková for her debut solo exhibition 'Covered in Grease, Still Running,' curated by Nela Klajbanová. The show runs from May 14 to June 27, 2026. Černíková's new audiovisual works use motifs of labor and maintenance to explore the body as a repairable machine. Figures tending to mechanical and digital systems highlight the cyclical, never-ending nature of repair, where repetitive activity opens space for dreaming. The loop becomes a fundamental structure, dissolving boundaries between body, tool, and image, questioning whether reality and identity can be truly repaired or merely kept operational. Maintenance is framed as both necessity and symptom of a system that generates its own failures.