“Chimera” - originally identifying a specific monster belonging to the Greek Mythology - describes any mythical or fictional creature with parts taken from various animals.
The monster reminds of Nature’s capacity for endless growth and adaptation, with no regards for circumstances, consequences, morals, suffering, etc.
Humans have an innate ambivalent yearning and terror for such amoral power.
The Chimera series delves into the creation of an absurd new nature, which is a reflection on nowaday’s fears and hopes for a Post-Human and Trans-Human future.
The imaginary borrows from speculations into undiscovered animal species and cryptids, as well as mythology and religion. This archetypical bestiary is paralleled with contemporary utopic and dystopic projections: DNA manipulation and bioengineering, environmental disasters, historical cathastrophes involving toxic chemicals/radiations.
Limbs and parts are combined into realistic looking organisms which, upon closer inspection, could never exist in real life. The shapes are as abstract as they are realistic, as ridiculous as they are grotesque. They highlight our endless -and morbose- fascination with powerful, larger-than-life creations, along with the fears and expectations that we have for the future.
