Post Democracy Print

In this current work, I am reflecting on the current situation of socio-political state in the western world. In an illusory imagine of wealth, we have an increasing inequality between poor and rich people, the politics look more like PR programs when a true, adult dialogue is missing. The current situation reminds more of an adult-child interaction when citizens are treated as not prepared for serious discussions and democracy is more of a theatre play. "A post-democratic society is one that continues to have and to use all the institutions of democracy, but in which they increasingly become a formal shell. The energy and innovative drive pass away from the democratic arena and into small circles of a politico-economic elite." after Colin Crouch. The "Smiley Face" on the artwork is depicting the citizen that is surrounded by a lot of noise and yellow journalism. This reflects the decrease of the expertise in the modern world, high subjectivism and unclear structures of truth. Same time, this face looks like it is smiling, but it is not its smile, it is an external one. So that the citizen is laughed at while having the eyes crossed and not seeing and understanding of what is happening in the world. This is another phenomenon present in the world we are living today, we don’t know what is happening with us until an "expert" party is telling us and branding the event. My works start from observing and analysing the world that surrounds us. Extracting small pieces of how the Zeitgeist expresses itself and depicting them in my artworks, I try to know and understand the universal truths. These truths combine and compose a worldview system given to the viewer. I do not offer my experience of reality, but rather disclosing the ideas that create the current reality. This way, my art tries to illuminate philosophical issues and shape human basic sense of what is and what matters.