In the wake of the Faceless Part I exhibition, arrives the sequel Faceless Part II; according to the same precepts: identity and anonimity, shyness and effrontery, attraction and fiction. The boundaries are blurred and the visitor is the one who may discern between the concepts, and glimpse what is behind the masks and how far public exposure and vulnerability have gone.
Is there a desire to observation? We humans tend to maximize the sense of vision, and when the naked eye is not enough, we resort to more and more sophisticated devices and softwares. Hence, a poetic surveillance, a Kantian perspective of the aesthethic can be found in any observer, and in any observed object. However, an obsessive need to monitor and record everything is strongly present today.
Faceless can be an icon, a symbol of resistance, a commercial strategy, a mere pantomime or a silent distraction. But also explores critically the increasing problems of our media culture.
Faceless confronts our sense of self.
At the end, the mask and the flesh become the very same; one can not have one without the other.
Faceless Part II Exhibition - MQ Wien - until Nov. 24 Here!
Faceless Part I - When Audrey Met Darcy
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