Series - FotoSlovo 2026 - Category « Fine Art »

In this series of self portraits I use my body and surrounding spaces to explore a question central to contemporary life: what is real and what is false. I embrace the fake, the artificial and the performative, layering manipulations until it becomes difficult to locate any original truth beneath them. The alterations I perform on my body are mostly physical acts carried out on location and are therefore ostensibly 'real', yet they openly declare their own falseness. I also construct or alter the spaces and deliberately introduce defects and glitches that appear digital. The work suggests that distinguishing between real and fake has become meaningless. Simulacra have surpassed their sources and appearance has become the new essence. Even the title of the series, “Things That Never Weren’t,” poses this paradox.