Artist Statement
“This society is like a vessel whose edges move ever wider apart, and in which the water never comes to the boil”. This quote from Jean Baudrillard’s Liquid Times represents the core interest of my photographic research: the transformation of western society. The presumption of being the best society, reckless consumerism and abused globalisation, the dream of (economic) success as the ultimate meaning to life, they radically changed our society in the last 60 years. The notion of social class has completely changed as well, identity is increasingly linked to a radical need to belong to a social group, in which to feel accepted. Is it a deliberate choice, or an over-imposed dictat of the dream industries? I am trying to produce images in which people can recognise themselves, and perceive the tension of a world that is approaching a breaking point.
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