Michael Staniak: No Shadows in Cyberspace

STATION is delighted to present No Shadows in Cyberspace, Michael Staniak's fifth solo exhibition with the gallery. The exhibition features new paintings alongside a film that explores the intersections of perception, reality and technological mediation.

The title, drawn from William Gibson’s Neuromancer (1984) and Haruki Murakami’s Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World (1985), points to a space where the boundaries between physical and virtual experience begin to dissolve.

Staniak’s paintings bring together traditional studio processes with visual languages that echo digital aesthetics, complicating distinctions between material and mediated forms.

The exhibition also introduces a new film work that considers how technological shifts shape contemporary image-making and the traditions that inform it. Produced without the use of AI, the work reflects a broader cultural shift toward renewed attention to materiality, labour and the unpredictability of the human hand.

Together, these works consider perception, illusion and the unstable nature of reality in an increasingly mediated world.