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Vanitas

Homage to Monica Cook, 2012

Created in collaboration with Katarina Tamova

The project, inspired by the paintings of the artist Monica Cook, refers to the theme of consumerism in today's world. The motif of ancient bacchanalia is connected with a reference to baroque vanitas still lives, where the formal but also the ideological outcome is real emptiness, transience, destruction and death. The images are a kind of reference to the bad sides of modern society: alienated, narcissistic, decadent, destructive, without relationships and real interest in life, longing only for material things. Behind the artificial facade of abundance lies the infinite emptiness of human existence.