Monosodium Glutamate, a series of staged large format photographs inspired by Baroque Spanish religious painting, represents the unfulfillment of the neoliberal promise – the collapse of the idea of a capitalist paradise and the decline of its centuries-old, uncontested patriarchal ruling class. Here, the body language that conveyed a mystical experience in classical paintings mutates into the silent screams or desperate mating calls of anonymous, isolated men trapped in a mundane hell, deprived of any spirituality.

Deemona is the first project of my ongoing series on alternative realities. It portrays a world where humans are the last remaining complex living beings at a later and more radical phase of the Anthropocene. All life has been extinct, returning to its original mineral stage. And humans are finally alone, undisturbed, having transcended their former nature towards a paradise of complete optimisation