Gestated in the fibers of environmental exploitation and the gears of capitalist machinery, the wooden man emerges as a personification of the fears and complexities of our era. We witness fragments of his existence in a film disguised as a defective and forgotten VHS tape, documenting a solitary struggle for survival in a world that both creates and rejects its own monsters.
A recording of a performative intervention in public space, where the artist himself embodies a contemporary monster. Cloaked in a minimalist disguise, his presence disrupts the city’s rhythm, creating small circuit breaks in the perception of passersby.
“[...] a wooden man that subverts public space and although it feels marginal, perhaps there is some freedom there at the same time on not being seen as just somebody else, another ID card. His de-corporality absolves him of being an executioner of the image, and his anti-human mimicry is that of an anonymity that resists, embraced by the group of nobodies”.
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