The cracks of the web ugh yes!
[80% magazine issue 1: dopplegäng]
images + text
2024
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presenting images shot in an AirBnb whilst on a working holiday, Mercedes compares the transient nature of contemporary culture with the body of the erotic labourer.
accessorised with domestic / medical essentials found in her temporal home and using her everyday iPhone as the camera, Mercedes touches on Zygmunt Bauman’s philosophical proposition on the ‘liquid’ temperament of modernity; whilst ‘liquidity’ supports freedom and experimentation, it also removes certainty and stability.
full magazine here
[80% magazine issue 1: dopplegäng]
images + text
2024
presenting images shot in an AirBnb whilst on a working holiday, Mercedes compares the transient nature of contemporary culture with the body of the erotic labourer.
accessorised with domestic / medical essentials found in her temporal home and using her everyday iPhone as the camera, Mercedes touches on Zygmunt Bauman’s philosophical proposition on the ‘liquid’ temperament of modernity; whilst ‘liquidity’ supports freedom and experimentation, it also removes certainty and stability.
full magazine here
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Liquid body mutates into fleeting spaces
Momentarily known, comparable to the jpeg
In dark corners she sits
The cracks of the web ugh yes!
Never the warm crevices of the ‘real’
Dooming… or something
The deterrent and maker of her love-hate with boredom
A temporary neighbour
Bed is not home, just steamy polyester
Or shop bought carrier of the borderless labourer
Thirsty?
Possessions of the imperative kind
The obsession for privacy in a post-private state
Naked.
Vague and sometimes silent
To be adored!
Her choice of name she wants you to know
Nauseating grasps as she takes off her clothes
Does she haunt you as you haunt her?
Aches and pains just to get off
The dubious bond of fantasy
What would it mean if we knew each other… really?