In Homenage and Oblivion, classical memory intersects with a still-uncertain technology. Eight 3D-printed busts, coated in gleaming resin, appear as relics of a lost future: sculptures that seduce with their radiance and, at the same time, twist into grotesque gestures. Between solemnity and parody, they seem to emerge from a museum of the future where no form remains intact. In 2016, these pieces erupted as figures that were at once too ancient and too new. They shone like commodities, yet carried the fracture of the spectral. More than monumental presence, they offered a detour: to show how the cultural icon multiplies, degrades, and reinvents itself in a present oversaturated with simulacra. Each head is both mask and mirror: a polished surface reflecting the desire for permanence and, at the same time, its impossibility. Between homage and oblivion, the work hovers like a luminous specter, suspended between digital artifice and the fragility of memory.
by Roberto Jacoby