2024

media object
size: 120x120x50
screen, polymer materials,
skins, aluminum, steel

BEAST #1

(Heart of a Dog)

series: Beyond the Ark

Animals who have lost their minds for love and The title of the work alludes to Mikhail Bulgakov’s novella «Heart of a Dog».

The Beyond the Ark series is the central project of recent years, born from the question: what happens to those who were not saved? The robotic-looking Beasts are the rejected—those who had to recreate themselves in order to continue. Their bodies are assembled from plaster, bones, hides, metal, and polymers—vulnerable remains doomed to decay. But on built-in screens their digital doubles pulse on a loop—like spirits no longer subject to circumstance. At the same time, without electricity, the “inside” of the Beasts disappears, becoming the invisible filling of forms so akin to what we call souls…

Each of the Beasts speaks of inequality in life and universal equality before death, of the irony of chosenness, and of the bitter necessity of evolving when you were not taken onto the ship.

series:
Beyond the Ark

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