Work in progress.
Right now, the numbers are showing 2 billion Facebook users and 0.7 billion Instagram users worldwide. This makes almost one third of the total population of 7.4 billion. Ever since we all became 'friends', there has been a perpetual need to impress others and somehow flash if only for a moment in the sea of identical photos and posts. However, the excessive amount of information is killing our creativity and each of our attempts to flash reminds of a brief camera flash in a crowded stadium.
Hyperinstagramisation is a series of paintings representing one of the 2.7 billion users of social networks – using her beauty with a series of selfies in front of the mirror a girl is feverish in her struggle to make a step forward and win idolatry of her followers, who are again in the same situation and struggling just the same. The open wound on her forehead is dripping fresh blood, which is a banal way to symbolise the 'death' of an idea as the meaning of progress and the basis of creation. The question arises whether this large amount of information and the celebration of the cult of personality has enabled man as an evolutionary phenomenon to thrive or its purpose is only to limit any kind of individuality and in this way prevent human prosperity.
Right now, the numbers are showing 2 billion Facebook users and 0.7 billion Instagram users worldwide. This makes almost one third of the total population of 7.4 billion. Ever since we all became 'friends', there has been a perpetual need to impress others and somehow flash if only for a moment in the sea of identical photos and posts. However, the excessive amount of information is killing our creativity and each of our attempts to flash reminds of a brief camera flash in a crowded stadium.
Hyperinstagramisation is a series of paintings representing one of the 2.7 billion users of social networks – using her beauty with a series of selfies in front of the mirror a girl is feverish in her struggle to make a step forward and win idolatry of her followers, who are again in the same situation and struggling just the same. The open wound on her forehead is dripping fresh blood, which is a banal way to symbolise the 'death' of an idea as the meaning of progress and the basis of creation. The question arises whether this large amount of information and the celebration of the cult of personality has enabled man as an evolutionary phenomenon to thrive or its purpose is only to limit any kind of individuality and in this way prevent human prosperity.