The exhibition shows Milan Cais’s most recent paintings, sculptures, objects and audiovisual works, in which he views mistakes and glitches as moments of disruption as well as potential starting points for new insights. The title’s familiar commands from the digital world express a desire to intervene in the course of events, to return to the beginning or to uncover deeper layers of meaning. At the same time, Cais reminds us that not all mistakes can be fixed, and that some failures have irreversible consequences.

In these works, errors, glitches, noise and shifts become a theme and an artistic principle. The fragmented figures of Madonnas made of fused glass update a traditional religious motif and ask questions concerning the transformation of womanhood, spirituality and cultural memory. With Panacea and his portraits made from pills, Cais explores the ambivalent relationship between treatment, relief and addiction. Other works look at existential and metaphysical dimensions, touching on the limits of human knowledge, the uncertainty of observation and the search for meaning when faced with forces that far transcend us as people.

The exhibition was preceded by the unveiling of the monumental sculpture Disconnected in the GASK gardens. The oversized electrical plug with a severed cord is a metaphor for an interrupted flow of energy, data and communications — and also an introductory motif to the exhibition, which explores the fragile nature of the systems, images and certainties on which he have built our everyday lives.