The series "Brancusi-esque Eternal Power" consist of two sets of two marble heads based on new energy vehicle charging devices and are respectively inspired by Brancusi's Tête d'enfant endormi and Prometheus (with for this last realistic human ears). A long silicon cable connects both marble heads plugged on one end at the neck of Prometheus and on the other to the mouth of the sleeping child. On the surface, various sentences written by the artist are inscribed, while each head is marked with a recurrent symbol: an eagle from a study by Frans Synders for Peter Paul Rubens' famous Prometheus Bound, and the letters Pm (standing for the chemical element 'Promethium'), named after the Greek mythology Titan to symbolize "both the daring and the possible misuse of mankind's intellect".
Modern art history works are revisited here through the lens of humanoid robotic aesthetics: a "Brancusi-esque style" for cold machine shells, a decoration void of emotions used by consumers in their everyday life ritual.
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