The protagonists of the exhibition “Thank you for your service” are animals, machines, minerals, fungi, and bacteria. All of them are indispensable to human society, whether because they feed us with their bodies, perform hard and tedious work for us, generate electricity, build our homes, or break down substances in our bodies and around us. Yet we rarely think about how to repay them for the work they do. As the title of the exhibition suggests, it would at least be appropriate to realize that this exploitative approach is not a given and to reevaluate the age-old approach to our more-than-human companions as to resources intended for consumption.

For centuries, Western civilization has constructed an image that separates humans (or rather white men) as rational beings from the natural world, placing them in a position superior to animals, plants, and other organic and inorganic elements of nature. The current posthumanist view, on which David Přílučík's exhibition is based, reevaluates the anthropocentric approach and rejects not only human superiority, but also the clear divide between humans and animals or machines.

In his exhibition, David Přílučík pays tribute to the more-than-human actors of our shared ecosystem. He creates reliefs—monuments to those whose work determines our society, yet who are not perceived as its full members. He explores new possibilities for attributing rights to subjects that fall outside the human definition, thereby challenging the modern concept of humans as the sole proper subjects. He offers new perspectives on our role in a more-than-human world, which could lead to greater interspecies empathy and thus open up space for more sustainable forms of coexistence.