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Piróth Tímea xxx's exhibition stiffens images that Hito Steyerl calls poor images with cross-stitch embroidery. These images show bodies, defective bodies, AI-hallucinated bodies, body defects, corrected body defects, bodies twisting into each other, orgies, body horror. Western philosophy has been haunted by the body for centuries. By the end of the 20th century, so many trends had finally called temptation by the body a false problem that the ontological unity of body and soul was stated in new materialism, phenomenology, soma aesthetics, etc. . By the end of the 20th century, the increasingly heated medium of the image (Hito Steyerl) materialized temptation by the body. By the time philosophy had dealt with it, technological media had brought temptation to life. The weak, poor, ugly, unassuming, cheap, casual, poor image embodies the body. The sight of bodies invades the field of vision from everywhere. There has never been a period in popular culture when all kinds of more or less sophisticated versions of body horror have multiplied around us so much. Frankenstein, four Dracula adaptations by 2025, Ryan Murphy's series The Beauty, the body horror film The Drug do not let go of our obsession with the beautiful, normative body. Bodies do not have time to develop, the incubation period is short, surfacing is painful and risky, the embodiment of the beautiful body takes a short time, the ugly body does not get enough attention, it has no time in the attention economy. Technological manipulation creates poorly executed, unguaranteed, unfinished bodies. A socially acceptable body image is a poor image.