SEVEN HEADS

MEDIUM / Installation
DATE / 2022

The installation Seven Heads consists of seven silicone heads mounted on metal rods. Partially veiled with nylon, the heads blur the line between human and artificial existence. The coldness of solitude is intensified by the repetition of the self, the creation of copies.

Seven Heads, 2022 (installation view)
Metal, Silicone, Polyurethane foam, Nylon
550 cm x 100cm x 240cm

The triptych of installations, shown at the exhibition Inbetween was based on the uncanny situations documented by S.Freud (Das Unheimliche, 1919) and refer to: inanimate objects that are mistaken as animate (dolls, waxwork, automata, amputated limbs, etc.), alive beings that behave as inanimate objects (ecstasy, seizures, etc.), the double (twins, doppelgangers, etc.), the coincidences or repetitions and the confusion between reality and fantasy.

[…] but with every step he took, with every thud of his foot on the granite of the pavement, there leapt up as though out of the earth a Mr. Golyadkin precisely the same, perfectly alike, and of a revolting depravity of heart. And all these precisely similar Golyadkins set to running after one another as soon as they appeared, and stretched in a long chain like a file of geese, hobbling after the real Mr. Golyadkin, so there was nowhere to escape from these duplicates, […]

F. Dostoyevsky. (1846). The Double