Necrophania

A large metal fish that vomits its smaller catches is a steel installation under the title Necrophania; suspended animation is the state of a person characterized by a temporary pause or slowing down of his biological functions, so as to give the impression that he is dead. This is an impermanent situation into a looking moment of complete end.

Fish are cold-blooded, not driven by passion, and often represent such abstract and soul-less entities, sometimes looking dead when they are still alive. The symbolism they carry is found in ancient religions and cultures when humans often see them as little more than food or decorative pets.

Repression of political systems and modern lifestyles can make humans feel numb and overwhelmed. That state resembles the fish which look emotionless inside and outside of water despite the struggle to breathe out of the sea. The big fish eats the small and the world is going on, when everything is still alive. That phrase describes the very animalistic yet human survival instinct in the state of an accelerated world. The work aims to express the agony of asphyxiation of humans into this reality during the Anthropocene epoch.