Alexey Gerasimov
  • Alexey Gerasimov 'Skibidi Toilet' 2023–ongoing.

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Alexey Gerasimov

Skibidi Toilet

18 January–10 April 202518 Jan–10 Apr 2025

Our screening room will host the first institutional display of Alexey Gerasimov’s Skibidi Toilet (2023-ongoing), the viral YouTube video series that has become a Gen Alpha cultural touchstone. Gerasimov’s machinima series employs videogame violence and meme culture on an epic scale, where a race of toilet-bound heads clash with camera-headed men in an eternal technological war. The horrors of the unconscious, filtered through TikTok remixes and action-film excess, are unleashed through Gerasimov’s nightmarish vision, filled with Fortnite dances and unending destruction. Skibidi Toilet stands as a contemporary manifestation of surrealist film, its dreamlike logic at once both banal and disturbing, its undeniable resonance with young people a red flag for contemporary art.

Curated By
  • Nicholas Aloisio-Shearer

The Institute of Modern Art acknowledges the traditional custodians of the land upon which the IMA now stands, the Jagera, Yuggera, Yugarapul, and Turrbal people. We offer our respect to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people as the first artists of this country. In the spirit of allyship, the IMA will continue to work with First Nations people to celebrate, support, and present their immense past, present, and future contribution to artistic practice and cultural expression.

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