“Sculpture in the form of iris growing from a shaped waveform base”. Japan. Artist unknown.

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Ronia photographed by Maya Silva

Hajo Corsten

1982

The constant typing and swiping on the smartphone is an almost liturgical gesture, and it has a substantive impact on our relation to the world. I swipe away the information that does not interest me. I zoom in on the content that I like. I have the world firmly in my grip. The world has to accord with my desires. In this way, the smartphone amplifies self-referentiality. Through all my swiping, I submit the world to my needs. The world appears to me under the digital illusion of total availability.

Byung-Chul Han, Non-things: Upheaval in the Lifeworld

Farah Willem, Who Seeks the Infinite One Has Only to Close the Eyes, (2014)

Gerhard Lutz

Videodrome (1983), dir. David Cronenberg

Victor Ivanoski aka Виктор Иваноски (Russian, b. 1967, Syktyvkar, Russia) - Boudoir series, Photography

Despair (1978) de Rainer Werner Fassbinder.

Tomona Matsukawa - Tonight, was I really with someone?, 2025 - Oil on canvas

Tin foil Pietà di Michelangelo