TOO MUCH

Too Much

April 4 – May 23, 2026
Suzanne Tarasieve Gallery, Paris, France

The exhibition explores the condition of a human being caught in a world of excess – an excess of data, signals, meanings, and of one’s own creations, which begin to live autonomous lives. At the center of the project lies the phenomenon of the work that outgrows its author: from ancient myths to contemporary digital structures that shape reality faster than humans are able to perceive it.

Almost simultaneously with the exhibition, the production of Das Rheingold by Richard Wagner in Salzburg (directed by Kirill Serebrennikov) is released, where a classical work demonstrates its ability to exist as a self-sustaining entity and to present an image of the future pushed to the point of absurdity – a world entrusted to human fantasies and their errors. This serves as a direct reference to Recycle Group’s central theme: creations that slip out of their creators’ control.

The works of Recycle Group examine human vulnerability in an age of overload, when artificial intelligence begins to repeat the fate of cultural forms of the past— becoming an autonomous force. Made of burned wood with incandescent writing, one of the work operates as a kind of fragmented, polyglot scripture. The cracked, burned surface recalls ancient stone, or degraded digital data. The materiality feels simultaneously archaic and corrupted. The carved words are drawn from multiple languages simultaneously — Latin, Italian, French, German, Russian, Greek, Arabic script, Japanese, and English – all fragmentary, incomplete, blending into one another. Reassembled, they circle around a single idea from Ecclesiastes 1:18: “For in much wisdom is much grief, and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.”

The work enacts its own subject, it is Too Much made literal – a universal human warning about excess. And the knowledge that knowing too much causes suffering has itself been over distributed and rendered nearly unreadable.

The collaborative work with Blue Noses add a precise and ironic accent, revealing the fragility of perception and the inherent absurdity of attempts to keep everything under control.

Too Much is a space of punk classicism and digital structures, where the human being tries to preserve itself in a world that has long since become… more than it can contain.