An increasingly present discussion is the issue about animal commercialization in industrial scale, and the consequences related. The environmental impact should make us reflect more about and its effects on Earth – an organic being who also suffers, showing clear signs that if we don’t change course, we will also be extinct. The emergence of Sars Cov 2 is living proof that this relationship is no longer beneficial to any being. Not that the arrival of the virus is directly related to this theme, but it is certainly the result of humans’ forced intervention with nature.
Meat industry makeup a steak, with a beautiful packages and adds to improve appearance, so we don’t remember its origin. The same could be said, for example, about virtual filters in social networks, making our skin, eyes and hair artificial, seeking an eternally youthful appearance that does not match the truth.
The reality is harsh. We grow up with a good dose of romanticism. Art itself is result of that; inherent to the human being to deal with reality that does not fulfill our existence. No problem with that. We are creative beings and we got here because of this ability. The problem is when our current economic system touches, aiming only for profit and hiding the side effects that it generates on the globe and people’s mental health.
Our self-image is distorted, mental illnesses, such as anxiety and depression, only grow in this generation because – not only – of the misuse of social networks; and the climatic cataclysm is right there, around the corner. Many years of nature’s extortion without planning, it may be too late for us to rethink a new way of life and humanized economic system.
This series is a manifesto created during my social isolation in 2020 – when death came to the spotlight. Here, abstract paintings were made on real animal parts, in addition to other organic forms that were no longer alive, aiming to makeup death, criticizing exactly this disguised way in which we live in.
