WHIRLWIND, 2024 

Whirlwind, 2024
1000 x 880 mm
Oil, 3D modelling and and Digital Collage on  archival paper on board. 

“Whirlwind” by AD-Reflex 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’. Simultaneously, the work reveals what is unique and authentic in people.  

The work alludes in a playful manner to the dual nature in each of us. In our contemporary culture, the prospect of communicating with, or even looking at a stranger is virtually unbearable. On a metro, people tend to fiddle with their phones, even without a signal underground and use technology as a universal armor to hide behind. Smartphones become our security blanket that protect us from what we perceive is going to be more dangerous.