The Cthulhucene Faces series is one branch of the Electroctopus research, which investigates the toxic by-products of the digital age. The works consist of plastics and electronic waste melted over plaster casts, creating faces that denounce the hidden materiality of the digital world — cables, metals, plastics, and ores whose cycles of extraction, use, and disposal generate devastating environmental impacts.
The series title makes direct reference to the concept of the Cthulhucene, proposed by the thinker Donna Haraway, which suggests that we have already surpassed the Anthropocene and now inhabit an era of entanglement in cults of post-truth. The faces in the series are, in this sense, specular images of a future that has already begun: cyborgishy beings made of waste and microplastic, inhabiting the threshold between the human, the technological, and the disposable.
The pieces in the series are testimonial portraits. Each face is thus a contradiction between what is sold to us as a future with a clean, aseptic design aesthetic, and the brutality of the waste that intoxicates biomes, destroys the planet's equilibrium, and fuels the rise in psychosomatic diseases and the deterioration of the social fabric as a whole.
