Concept
The project investigates the crisis of human control over the world through the total flattening of five domestic containers: buckets, toolboxes, cages, jerrycans, and mailboxes. The forced destruction of three-dimensionality turns the utilitarian form inside out, transforming metal into flat reliefs. Lacking physical void and practical function, these objects—in the logic of Jean Baudrillard’s philosophy—are reborn as pure signs. The series of objects captures humanity’s capitulation to the material environment, an environment it can no longer master.
Found Objects
Exhibition Sketch
Space: Recraft AI Objects: Photoshop
The Process of Creating a Series of Paintings
The found objects undergo compression to a flat state using a hydraulic press with a force of 100 tons.
Bucket—
Initial mastery of material, submission to the element, and basic manual labor.Dimensions:29×47
Toolbox—
technological order, cataloging power.Dimensions:large section:
37×57
smaller section:
20×53
Cell—
Institutional violence (including against nature), isolation, and dominance.Dimensions: 32×48
Canteen —
the taming of industrial energy, conservation, and appropriation of resources.Dimensions:41×49
Mailbox —
socialization, alienatedlanguage, and the fixation of time.Dimensions:
46×53
