A poet of absurdity, a bohemian with an Ostrava patina, an artist who never bowed to the seriousness of the world. Jiří Surůvka, a living legend and enfant terrible of Czech art, whose work oscillates between Dadaist play, sharp irony and uncompromising criticism of society. The exhibition The Power Plant Boilerman presents a selection of the work of this outstanding personality of the Czech art scene, which stands out for its combination of irony, grotesque and deep humanism. He presents the themes of violence, manipulation, totalitarian symbols and war propaganda with an insight that has the power not only to amuse, but above all to affect. One of the key elements of his work is his play with icons – both pop culture and historical. His alter ego Batman, slightly crumpled and disillusioned in his Ostrava performance, moves between performance, photography and object. He is not a hero in polished armour, but rather a tragicomic figure staggering between reality and his own fiction. In EPO1, Jiří Surůvka’s works collide with the industrial memory of this place. Among the non-functioning machines and relics of the industrial past, a dialogue between the weight of history and the playfulness of artistic gesture plays out. The exhibition presents a broader view of Surůvka’s work, but above all his ability to see the world differently – through a distorted mirror that reflects reality with frightening fidelity.