New Segregation
the New Segregation
New Segregation
“New Segregation” is a series of paintings dealing with topics of posthumanism, genetic engineering, and the destruction of nature. It is a display of a fictional dystopian future with drastic and terrifying social engagements, whose heroes are posthuman figures, or more precisely transgenic human beings interbred with animals. These newly created post-biological subjects erase boundaries between nature and technology, man and machine. Although fictional, this image of a world is not entirely impossible, and it is based on actual problems and real social relationships. Providing insight into what human beings might strive for, this science-fictional saga draws attention to important issues that humankind will soon face, and questions the very limits of humanity.
Paintings can be shown in chronology to create a story. Narrative transformed into a media of oil painting thus constructing a fictional course of history.
The world destroyed by pollution and pandemics reaches a climax with the enforcement of biopolitical power over the lives of people and the ascent of genetically modified humans. To survive in these new conditions, or as an excuse to establish new world order and permanent genetical change to make people from different social classes even physically different, human beings, as depicted in the triptych “Segregation”, crossbreed with three of the most resilient animals: richest with boars, a class that serves them with rats, and poorest with cockroaches. These animals also have symbolic values, thus boars allude to Orwell’s “Animal Farm” because they, as the most intelligent and most similar to humans, run the world. Middle-class, rats, are further away from people by genetics, and the poorest class, cockroaches, almost completely lost their humanity, while on the other side they are the most adaptable and most resistant. All three species are considered pests.
This new world order creates cruel relationships between newly formed social classes. In the continuation of the triptych, paintings show a total loss of empathy in scenes that come before the violence or those where violence is already committed. Paintings with abuse and murders are followed by those where we can see resistance to segregation through forbidden love affairs between individuals from different species. Love is the one that knows no boundaries, and it is love that represents the subversive element of the new social stratification.
