Do I stand a chance? 2016
This sculpture is part of a series called Exist Tense.
In particular the human figure part of this work have features of pre Hispanic American gods from cultures such as the Mayan and Aztec, chosen for their relation with the cosmos and how integrated and evident this awareness of the universe was. The figure holds a contemporary technological device in his hand which contains a universe in itself.
The series approaches the constant denial of reality translated as Human arrogance. The aim is to state how the web has become the last destination in which it is acceptable to spend our existence, even more so, it is the perfect environment for having access to reality while also escaping it.
Look at all this life lessons shared on the Internet that no one will ever applied in real life. 2016
This sculpture is part of a series called Exist Tense.
The sculptures represents us, God like figures unaware of their potential, wasting their existence on a virtual space, covered by their accumulating and growing mess. We exist on top of a diseased, polluted, overpopulated world and still demand the changes to come from somewhere else because we are multitasking over the internet. In lack of this self awareness the collective self is now scattered, fragmented and inefficient.
What was viral in 2013? 2016
This sculpture is part of a series called Exist Tense.
The works include parts and materials found around Sydney, then manipulated and moulded together to obtain forms that resemble movement of growth, behaviors found in mutating matter.
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Born in 1979 in Mexico, has lived in the U.S.A., Spain and now in Australia. Being exposed to technology in an exponential manner allowed him to witness the drastic alteration of our lifestyles and the sudden rise of our new cyber worlds and identities. His art results fall in the intersection of figurative and abstract, constantly obsessed with the possibility of making visible the intangible. Jorge Mansilla has been producing art since 1999: exploring various themes such as sexuality, spirituality, our relationship with nature and death.