The exhibition run_it_back.exeˇ by New York artist Avery Singer, marked her first solo exhibition in Portugal. Designed specifically for the Serralves Museum’s context, the exhibition questioned the paradoxes of the digital era and the systematic tensions at the heart of contemporary society, exploring the confluences of art, technology and architecture.  

In her new paintings, Singer reflects upon the promises of emerging digital economies, such as cryptocurrency, revealing the volatile, alienating fragmentation of identity that frequently coexists alongside. Figures with deliberately blank or detached expressions inhabit spaces which remind the viewer of sterile public offices and financial institutions—impersonal environments where individuals become cogs in an indifferent system.

Co-published with Hauser & Wirth, this book presents a retrospective of Avery's work, bringing together a selection of pieces from various exhibitions held between 2014 and 2025, a conversation between Avery and curator, critic and art historian Hans Ulrich Obrist, and another between the artist and artist and filmmaker Gabriel Abrantes. The book is prefaced by Philippe Vergne, Director of the Serralves Museum, and includes an essay by Inês Grosso, curator of the exhibition.