A poet of absurdity, a bohemian with an Ostrava patina, an artist who has never bowed to the seriousness of the world. Jiří Surůvka is a living legend, the enfant terrible of Czech art, whose work oscillates between Dadaist playfulness, sharp irony and uncompromising criticism of society. The exhibition The Power Plant Boilerman presents a selection of the work of this distinctive personality of the Czech art scene, who stands out for his combination of irony, farce and deep humanism. In the industrial engine room of the EPO1 Centre for Contemporary Art and the adjacent black boxes, the artist plays out a peculiar dialogue between an anti-war message, social criticism and distinctive humour. In addition to the famous piece Fatherhood and recordings of performances by the artist’s alter ego, Batman, the exhibition also presents the series The War Makers, in which Surůvka uses bizarre characters to reveal the absurdity of violence and manipulation. His art, fluctuating between performance, object and new media, reflects the world through a distorted mirror capturing reality all the more accurately.