TRANSITORY, 2021 

TRANSITORY, 2021 (Edition 5)
1000 x 500mmm each (4 x Panels)
Oil, 3D modelling, Digital Collage and reverse printing on 5mm PERSPEX..

The series, “Transitory” (2021), by AD-Reflex explores in a playful manner ‘transit psychology’, as manifested in the lives of ‘others’ on the metro. The normality of a daily journey takes on a poetic quality in the series. Many of the commuters seem to choose to go inward, appearing to be in some kind of trance.

The subway - which keeps random people together in a contained, observable setting - is a perfect rolling ‘theatre’ for the study of human behavior. Nowhere do we come closer, involuntarily, to our neighbour than in the underground. The work speaks to the human condition, our passions, insecurities, challenges, triumphs and failures, and showcases the subtle shift of awareness, understanding and the social unease of ‘privacy shields’.

Each individual panel in the series resembles both the the shape of a train window and the shape of a smartphone. On a metro, people tend to fiddle with their phones, even without a signal underground and use technology or reading as a universal amor to hide behind. Smartphones become our security blanket that protect us from what we perceive is going to be more dangerous. Simultaneously, smartphones also prove a useful tool, especially during Covid times to fight the pandemic, but also for people to escape to another world of ‘otherness’.