UNASSIGNED HUMAN
Cromagnon (2013) functioned as a photographic investigation into the alienated condition of Western man, at a moment when absence was perceived as something that might be overcome. The project searched for images of presence: a contemporary primal figure, not as an archetype, but as an attempt to render the human visible again within an affluent and saturated society. In the years that followed, this inquiry shifted. Unassigned Human departs from the realisation that restoring has become impossible. The primary force that once sustained human action appears to have been exhausted. Unassigned Human depicts a present human without possibility. The figures occupy uncomfortable, intermediate states: no longer assigned to a role, yet not liberated from it. Bored, nihilistic and waiting and surrounded by possibilities. What remains is a creature at the dusk of its his own history — fully visible, yet no longer able to express meaning.
