NEW YORK · INTERNATIONAL GROUP EXHIBITION

PROCRUSTEAN
BED

Those who do not fit the norm do not exist.

08—16 MARCH 2026FRIDMAN GALLERY169 BOWERY, NEW YORK
Procrustean Bed exhibition at Fridman Gallery

Procrustean Bed examines how contemporary social and administrative systems compel individuals to adapt to predefined norms.

The exhibition focuses on migration, bureaucracy and integration—contexts in which personal history, language and identity are forced to adjust in order to remain legitimate and visible.

Through different artistic practices, the participating artists explore imposed roles, repetitive social scripts and external expectations. The Ukrainian experience becomes a lens through which universal mechanisms of normalisation are revealed.

WHAT GOES BEYOND THE LIMITS IS CUT OFF.
WHAT FALLS SHORT IS STRETCHED.

SYSTEMS OF
NORMALISATION

The exhibition explores systems that transform bodies, biographies and experiences into material for correction. Migration policy, bureaucratic procedures, educational and medical institutions, and economic models of productivity forcibly adapt reality to a predetermined form.

The Procrustean bed is not only a metaphor for violence. It is a method: a standard applied to a person before the person is seen.

TARAS HAIDAANNA LUHOVSKAYURII SYVYRINNIKITA TSOYAND OTHERS

ANNA AVETOVA

MERCURY ART CENTER
RUKH ART HUB

FRIDMAN GALLERY
169 BOWERY, NEW YORK

NEW YORK · INTERNATIONAL GROUP EXHIBITION

PROCRUSTEAN
BED

Those who do not fit the norm do not exist.

08—16 MARCH 2026FRIDMAN GALLERY169 BOWERY, NEW YORK
Procrustean Bed exhibition at Fridman Gallery

Procrustean Bed examines how contemporary social and administrative systems compel individuals to adapt to predefined norms.

The exhibition focuses on migration, bureaucracy and integration—contexts in which personal history, language and identity are forced to adjust in order to remain legitimate and visible.

Through different artistic practices, the participating artists explore imposed roles, repetitive social scripts and external expectations. The Ukrainian experience becomes a lens through which universal mechanisms of normalisation are revealed.

WHAT GOES BEYOND THE LIMITS IS CUT OFF.
WHAT FALLS SHORT IS STRETCHED.

SYSTEMS OF
NORMALISATION

The exhibition explores systems that transform bodies, biographies and experiences into material for correction. Migration policy, bureaucratic procedures, educational and medical institutions, and economic models of productivity forcibly adapt reality to a predetermined form.

The Procrustean bed is not only a metaphor for violence. It is a method: a standard applied to a person before the person is seen.

TARAS HAIDAANNA LUHOVSKAYURII SYVYRINNIKITA TSOYAND OTHERS

ANNA AVETOVA

MERCURY ART CENTER
RUKH ART HUB

FRIDMAN GALLERY
169 BOWERY, NEW YORK