Creative Terror is a set of artistic practices that emerge in moments of crisis, whether existential, economic, or the crisis of turning thirty — that doesn’t really matter.
Techniques characteristic of image-based creative professionals — such as photography, design, video, or illustration in all their forms — are used to ironize situations surrounding the role of the artist, work–production, and social prestige.
Terror hides beneath the mechanisms in which we are involved: documents that constrain us, discourses that isolate us, and lifestyles that turn us into just another product of consumer society.
“Nowadays, one can find so few philosophers, artists, or writers: in these roles of representation there is little more than Bloom figures producing cultural commodities, adopting the referential poses that best favor their position (…) Under the present regime of things, we are forbidden to identify ourselves in a lasting way with any particular content, only with the movement of tearing ourselves away from each of them.”
— Tiqqun
Artist looking for work
Artist Looking for Work, 2011
Photomontage, variable dimensions.
Confronting the labor precariousness so characteristic of artistic practices, I propose to ironize this situation through a personal fiction. My artist self is a zombie who survives behind the fiction of a “living” worker, in constant search of paid employment in order to sustain myself.Dust you are and to dust you shall return
“Dust you are and to dust you shall return”, 2011
Video–action, dossier-format
Glass jar and ashes. 5 × 2.5 × 2.5 cm.
DV video, PAL, color, stereo sound, 8:07 min.
