Location: Salon Galić Gallery (Marmontova 3)

Dates: October 2 – November , 2025

Opening of the exhibition by visual artist Eric del Castillo, titled /ˈhakɪŋ/, will take place on Thursday, October 2, 2025, at 7 PM, at Salon Galić. The exhibition will remain open until November 6, 2025.

The exhibition is curated by art historian Dalibor Prančević.

"Hacking is a word that originated in a digital context, yet the gesture it signifies far surpasses the realm of computer networks. It involves breaking through barriers, bypassing norms, and re-coding existing structures to create space for unexpected functions and unannounced appearances. In this sense, hacking is understood less as a technical act and more as a cultural and/or political method. This methodology lies at the core of Eric del Castillo’s exhibition at Salon Galić, which explores the transfer of hacking from digital to analog and back, showing how techniques of manipulation, forgery, and diversion are equally present in the fields of economy and media, as well as art and spirituality. One of the fundamental premises for approaching the exhibition is that reality today can hardly be seen as stable and original, but rather as a set of illusions and constructions that shape our perception and experience of the world." — From the foreword, Dalibor Prančević

Eric del Castillo (Mexico City, 1962) is a multimedia artist working across various discursive platforms, perceiving contemporary culture and its components as a repository of information from which he selects fragments of images and objects and intervenes in them to create new relational networks and environments. The exploration of collage lies at the center of his long-standing artistic practice—not only as a visual language but also as a way of thinking, acting, and understanding the contemporary world.

Since 1987, he has exhibited in twenty solo and over one hundred group exhibitions in Mexico, Croatia, the USA, Germany, Spain, and Canada. He is a recipient of the National Fund for Arts and Culture (FONCA) scholarship, Mexico, and the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), USA, for a residency at the Headlands Center for the Arts, San Francisco, 1996. In the 1980s and 1990s, he co-founded the performance groups Los Escombros de la Ruptura and La Sociedad Mexicana Protectora del Espectador de Performance, and participated in the group El Sindicato del Terror. The complete archive of documentation of these and other Mexican performance groups, titled El Sindicato del Terror/Eric del Castillo (Performance archive of the 80s and 90s in Mexico), was donated in 2018 to Arkheia Documentation Center, University Museum of Contemporary Art, UNAM (Mexico City, Mexico). He is a member of the Croatian Association of Fine Artists Split and lives and works in Split.

More information about the exhibition is available at: https://hulu-split.hr/izlozbe/