Social Dynamics emerged as a response to the accelerating absence of genuine human encounters — what I term “non-meetings”: choreographies of roles rather than expressions of self, transactions masquerading as intimacy, protocol eclipsing presence. A theatre of avoidance, where habit and hierarchy replace empathy and improvisation.
Deeply influenced by the social surrealism of Martin Parr, Peter Land, and the visceral provocations of Oliviero Toscani, my earlier practice — spanning documentary, video art, and commercial commissions for platforms such as DR, The Diary, and Vice — increasingly felt inadequate in addressing the current dissonances. A new method was needed.
With its sterile, depersonalized aesthetic, the visual language of staged stock imagery offered a more apt medium for the task: a sterile mirror to the systemic, ritualistic absurdities we inhabit and a tool to unmask the banal violence of everyday hierarchies we refuse to see.
These are not portraits of events, but tableaux of recurring defective cultural rites — symptoms of something more entrenched and disquieting. My ambition is not merely to critique, but to offer a brief rupture: a moment of recognition, perhaps even laughter, before we are swept back into the machinery.
The works are available as posters (signed) – or unique 1/1 prints, accompanied by NFT certification, produced on matte glass or brushed aluminum. Dimensions: 100 x 56 cm. – get them here.
