PEPE DOMINGUEZ

PEPE DOMÍNGUEZ - Flesh (The Abyss)

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The lines that separated the public and the private have long since dissolved, especially with the rise of technology, mass media, and spectacle culture. Modernity, with its technological and cultural advances, has transformed human experience, eroding the distinction between the intimate and the shared or publicly exposed. What was once private is now publicly exposed through social media, reality shows, and constant media surveillance. In turn, the "outside world," the avalanche of images, information, and stimuli from the public environment, has invaded the "inner space," that is, the mind and intimate life of people, transforming the body itself and turning us in turn into a spectacle to be consumed, in an eternal chain that feeds itself. In this "society of the spectacle," images and representations (such as those in the media, advertising, and politics) replace the direct experience of reality, making life itself become a kind of theater where truth is only a passing "moment" within a broader construction of falsehood. Go viral, become a meme, let everyone know how divine or miserable your life is, but always let it be more than that of the person next door; the minimum is not enough, one must strive for excellence, stand out in degradation. We believe it to be true, but we cannot appreciate its deformations, especially the more immersed we are, the closer we are, and considering it true, we take it as a reflection of our identity, we assimilate it and change accordingly, and this is how a transfer of distortions from the media to ourselves occurs, accepting as our own, pernicious ideologies launched by gurus, influencers and popes of the mass media: anti-vaccines, racism, flat-earthers (…). Perhaps it is time to stop looking in the mirror and be more aware of what is around us.