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Ever faster, higher, further - so goes the credo of a limitless society. At the beginning of the twenty first century, people are hovering between euphoria and depression, and are confronted with the auspicious possibilities that a global and virtual world affords them. Nonetheless, they are too facing the challenge of continually improving and making more efficient their own lives.With works by 18 contemporary artists, this exhibition creates an image of this present, in the centre of which stands the individual him/herself.Similarly to the narrative structure of David Foster Wallace's 1996 novel Infinite Jest, from which it takes its name, the exhibition examines the various different challenges the individual is now confronted with, in which the resistance and dissent of such a reality - one people like to see as inescapable - become visible.Themes such as addiction in its enormous variety of manifestations, the placing of the individual, depression, emptying of meaning or even absurdity and irrationality are set up for discussion. The term 'hysterical realism', which arose in literature some years ago, is made visually and conceptually comprehensible in the works shown.English and German text.