David Tibet: Hallucinate, Children

David Tibet, founder of the musical project Current 93, is one of the most distinctive figures in esoteric and experimental underground music of recent decades. His extensive discography spans dozens of albums, creating a unique body of work shaped by collaborations with figures such as Steven Stapleton, Michael Cashmore, Nick Cave, Shirley Collins, and Anohni.

The exhibition Hallucinate, Children opens at Prague's DOX on October 23, 2026, created in collaboration with the artist. It presents visual work spanning Tibet's entire career - his artistic practice as an autonomous visual universe, closely intertwined with music, literary work, publishing activities, and a long-standing interest in visionary literature, biblical and apocryphal texts, and marginal currents of spiritual imagination.

Tibet's drawings and paintings are not illustrations of songs or accompaniment to his musical career. They function as independent records of dreams, visions, and ecstatic imaginative gestures. Their symbolic language is inhabited by recurring figures and signs: children, stars, birds, angels, sacred names, ghosts, and apocalyptic landscapes - motifs suspended between innocence and terror, fragility and prophecy, nursery rhyme and final judgment.

Tibet's work grows from a tradition of visionary art and literature from John Milton, William Blake, M. R. James, Count Stenbock, and Thomas Ligotti to British hallucinatory underground and Christian apocalyptic thought. Hallucinate, Children presents the image not as decoration, but as a sign: urgent, unsettling, and strangely tender testimony to a world perpetually standing on the threshold of revelation.