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MANUFACTURED DESIRE

Desire rarely arrives on its own.


It is produced through images, repeated through advertising and reinforced through digital culture until it feels instinctive. Works here belong to this visual ecosystem, borrowing its seductive language while exposing the systems operating beneath it.


Bright colours, fashion references, artificial flowers, polished surfaces and digital aesthetics become materials rather than decoration. Consumed looks at the emotional economy of consumerism, where identity is assembled through products, aspiration and endless comparison, while Anthurium: Transmutations  shifts desire into the territory of synthetic beauty and technologically generated nature. Newly created works (Wealth Maxxing) extend the investigation into internet culture, where luxury aesthetics, productivity and self-improvement become contemporary myths.


The visual language remains intentionally familiar because familiarity is part of the mechanism. Attraction and critique exist simultaneously. Images promise empowerment while quietly demanding performance.


Manufactured Desire gathers works that examine branding, beauty culture, consumerism and digital identity as interconnected systems. Rather than separating personal desire from economic structures, this section reveals how closely they have become intertwined in contemporary life.

INCLUDES:


WEALTH MAXXING (COMING SOON)
ANTHURIUM: TRANSMUTATIONS (2026)
TILL DEATH DO US PART (2024)
CONSUMED (2023)
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<h6 class="font_6">WEALTH MAXXING (COMING SOON)</h6>
<h6 class="font_6">ANTHURIUM: TRANSMUTATIONS (2026)</h6>
<h6 class="font_6">TILL DEATH DO US PART (2024)</h6>
<h6 class="font_6">CONSUMED (2023)</h6>

Consumed, installation view, 2026

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