@pixellare

In my view, the work represents the cultural normalization of figures and instruments that exert an ever-growing power over our daily lives. The robot dog, a symbol of surveillance, automation, and militarization, is transformed into an exotic and almost playful animal. What should be worrying now appears harmless, accessible, even endearing. Figures who concentrate resources, cultural influence, and economic power become pop characters, memetic elements: forms of authority converted into harmless mascots. What should unsettle is turned into amusing spectacle. A cultural process that makes everything feel more familiar, acceptable, and “normal”: a world in which even extreme power becomes a “regular animal” on display, observed with distracted curiosity, no longer revealing the danger of transforming into increasingly pervasive or authoritarian forms of control. i.m.o.o.f.c.o.u.r.z.e.

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