For my paintings collection MEME I intensively focused on post-modern
philosophy. This caused me to take a critical look at today’s society in which,
according to me, the influence of the media captures personal opinions and the
ingenious machinery then turns these into thoughts for the masses. Individual
thoughts are removed, and thus modern society tends to deceive itself. Truth
becomes lies and lies become truth. The questions which everyone should ask themselves
are:
“Am I really the one deciding
how I should be?”
“What should I think?”
“How should I act?”
“What do I have to like?”
“How should I behave?”
The “Meme” theory was introduced by Richard Dawkins in his book The
Selfish Gene. In it, an element of a culture or a behavioural system is
transported from one individual to another by mimicking the causes, which do
not have any genetic characteristics.
Every painting collection MEME reflects situations of daily life, an
analysis of society, of various cultures, flows of thoughts and, above all, the
tendency to want to be different. However, in the end, the individual is merely
a MEME, in other words the same. The thought alone that billions of people lead
nearly the same life every day is somehow astounding and, at the same time,
fascinating.
With the use of the colour blue, my aim is to reflect the coolness of
the modern and the IT worlds. In contrast, the pink and yellow neon lights, as
well as neon lines, represent human energy. To reinforce the idea of
diminishing individuality, the people are similarly clothed and headless.
These pieces are nothing more than a simple and yet well-thought-through
study and observation of modern society in which the masses play the leading
role, live and do not think.
