$ 399.00 or The consumed consumer [2025]

Year: 2025

Material: colored acrylique resin throughout, concrete, mirror polished stainless steel

Edition:Limited to 8+4 pieces

Dimensions:Width : 48 cm Length : 53 cm Height : 95 cm

Description: 

The phenomenon of personal data monetization gave rise to $399. We are becoming the products of this new economy. Referenced, cataloged, classified, studied, monetized.

$399 echoes the online commodification of the body, be it female or male.

Has ordering a sexual service online on sites such as Only Fans become a new form of sexual slavery or a reinvented sexual act?

This actuality, along with the emergence of sex robots, raises questions about the social reorganization that it will bring about.

Over the last 20 years, individuals have become accustomed to these dematerialized exchanges (Not to mention the youngest among us who have never known anything else), and tend to forget the value of physical connection. The importance of scents, smells, warmth, pain, and all of the non-visual or audible signals that enrich the depth of an encounter between two beings.

All bodily signals, complex in definition, convey reactions to actions which are essential in the relationship between two people. They are the key to a comeback for empathy and, undoubtedly, respect. Where, in these new types of relationships, does one find embarrassment, fear, boldness, frustration or anticipation?

Through these new exchanges, it would be interesting to know whether the consumer is fully aware that at the other end of their HDMI cable, they are dealing with a human being and not a machine.

The cloud-shaped base refers to the “cloud,” or data centers, and the presence of raw concrete, a cold and familiar material, to refer to the industrial period. A piece of a human being just placed on a concrete corner, a singular and chilling image of dehumanization which is insidiously taking hold.