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Fighting Against Dehumanization

My firm opinion is that we live in a world filled with algorithms and technologies, spheres very much in evidence to the extent that they dwarf our emotional space. Human emotions have been smoothed and regulated by automated systems, by the predictive algorithms controlling and imposing behavioral norms and feelings.

So, we become passive, even lazy, in regard to emotions: instead of fully living our angers, joys, or fears, we click buttons to outsource those feelings. I fight against this progressive dehumanization by capturing emotions as raw material, to preserve them in their most authentic form.

My job is an artistic effort to salvage those pieces of emotion which we let go, to revive them, make them present. My wish, in rescuing such emotions, is to bring some of the wild, savage humanity back into our world, away from the algorithms looking to pigeonhole us into predetermined patterns.

What I would like to stress are the essentials: feeling that these feelings are being felt, understood through the filters and pre-fabricated structures that collect and save these feelings before drowning them in the uniformity of the digital measures.