Naive

47cm
PU Resin, Flock
Edition of 71
2022

A self-portrait of the artist at the age of eight, this sculpture poses unsettling questions: will the human become a resource for technology? Are we users, or merely objects being used? Will virtuality serve as a refuge – or an erasure? The work invites the viewer to consider whether our deepening immersion in simulation is a step toward liberation or an act of surrender. Notably, the artist dedicated their bachelor’s thesis to reflections on Simulacra and Simulation (Simulacres et Simulation) by French philosopher Jean Baudrillard, published in 1981.