Our society is getting out of direct communication (a face-to-face one). Everything now is happening through technology devices. People in the bus, on the street, in the elevator or in night clubs – everywhere they are looking at their smartphones, tablets or laptops in order to stay connected. But this connection isn’t real. It’s a surrogate reality. The contact between people is changed to something different. They don’t touch themselves but they touch the touch-screens. The communication is transformed.
And as “easier” become to find new friends, new love partners or new job on the web, as harder is to live in the real life. All turns to virtual. This “transformation” of values is in the center of my series of works named: “Digital still lives”.
The concept is to show exactly this phenomena – the influence of the digital époque over our reality. The objects in the paintings are still here, but they are transformed already as pictures behind the digital displays and in fact… they aren’t here. We see an apple but this isn’t an apple, it’s a virtual reflection of an apple. The still lives are transformed into something else. They are visible but their presence is an illusion. You can’t touch or eat them, you can only find their existence as convincing even you don’t know where and when this existence is. And if the still life represents a “dead nature”, here this nature is double dead, exactly for the same reason. The still lives are reflection of the reflection.
“Digital Still life”
“Mobile Still life”
“A space still life”
“Friday night”
“Sunset still life”
“The blue room”
