The wide project ‘‘Crowd Studies’’, spread from my interest in gestures and energetic relations present in the different types of... Read More
The wide project ‘‘Crowd Studies’’, spread from my interest in gestures and energetic relations present in the different types of crowds that human history has known. As the research developed, my focus shifted more towards crowd psychology, a branch of social psychology that has been widely debated in the last two centuries by scholars such as Gustave Le Bon, Sigmund Freud, and Elias Canetti.
The analysis of the behavior of the crowds led me to the production of a series of works that fall under the name of Crowd Studies, in which I investigate, through the medium of nonconventional drawing, how the psychological energies in different gathering situations affect the movements of the masses.
Further developing of the work are strongly influenced by the contemporary events regarding the spread of Covid-19, and confronts concepts such as loss of individuality, the concept of an ego as analyzed in Buddhism, collective behavior, mass surveillance and social phobia linked to epidemics.
