HEROS II
WORK IN PROGRESS
HEROS II examines how contemporary masculinity is shaped under the pressures of digital visibility, from AI and “looksmaxing” cultures to the quiet crisis of male loneliness. The series considers how ideals of strength and desirability are constructed, performed, and destabilized through algorithmic influence.
HEROS
What happens to masculinity when the structures that once stabilized it no longer hold?
Masculinity as it is shaped within contemporary systems of visibility, where ideals of strength and desirability are continuously constructed and performed. Intentionally echoing historical precedent, the conditions under which it is produced and circulated have fundamentally shifted, and the work traces how these identities are destabilized within that change.
Georg Baselitz'S early Hero paintings depict damaged, fractured male figures (soldiers, rebels, anti-heroes) who appear wounded, awkward, and stripped of traditional authority.
So instead of presenting masculinity as strong or idealized, Baselitz shows it as:
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compromised
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historically burdened
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visually unstable (literally distorted, later inverted)
Masculinity after collapse.
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