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In 2023, @amadon displayed No Rioters on an enormous billboard in Hong Kong. Hidden within the glitch animation were the names and prison sentences of pro-democracy activists. The work was removed after its political content came to light. The following year, Amadon brought a similar approach to New York's Times Square. His commissioned artwork Passive Observer featured blinking eyes, interrupted by fleeting frames referencing the war in Gaza. The message appeared so briefly that viewers could easily miss it. In /redlightgreenlight, an armed figure lies against a grainy green background, interrupted by sudden bursts of digital distortion. The imagery evokes surveillance and military violence, while the glitches repeatedly obscure the scene. Presented in Lisbon as part of Still Here (2026), the work continues Amadon's exploration of visibility, power, and the use of digital art to confront political violence.

Around 1965, a photograph captured women and children travelling through Amman, Jordan, a city that had become home to thousands of Palestinian refugees following the Nakba. For Growth Imperative, @_ryab666 transformed a scan of the photograph into a dense collage of urban imagery, advertisements and brightly coloured flowers. He obscured the faces of figures in the original image to represent Palestinians killed in Gaza, while the flowers introduce the possibility of change. Presented in Lisbon as part of Still Here, the work contrasts capitalism's demand for continual economic expansion with the need for people to change their understanding of the world and the systems that shape it.