Representation and transcendence are the main drivers of Western society, making obsession the main state of mind. Due to this triad, we forge a will, and as a result, we finalize being devoured by it. Contemporary thinking is submissive and subconsciously persistent, taking inspiration from the imagery of past centuries. “Apathy” has become a collective vice, associated with its antithesis “Ataraxia”, the optimistic concept formulated by the ancient Greeks. It is precisely the contemporary ataraxia that instead of being an ideal state, it is labelled as a disease, a stigma, a limitation of the possibilities of the individual and the society. Instead of creating new dimensions, we populate the world with simulations that have settled to supplant us, forcing us to become their own extension.

Concerning an ideal, utopian but imaginable state is the impulse that guides my pictorial exercise, an attempt to rescue us from the self-destructive yearning that permeates the cosmos. The search for serenity and happiness has lost relevance: we stop believing in them as possible states of the being. Practising ataraxia in its original form today becomes an even greater challenge, but perhaps it is the wake-up call society needs to revive from the lethargy of the real.