A weeping face dissolving into the dry sand of the desert, or just pareidolia, a face that has been misinterpreted?

The context may answer the question. The detail of the face, composed of lines and dissolving like branches or liquid, is located in the lower left corner, right next to the signature, of Sebastian Bieniek's painting "Media Democracy - Rendezvous of Truth." Does media-induced manipulation dissolve our self-image, or does it even determine it?

If one were to believe the artist: yes. The individual, therefore, exists only nominally and merely as a label, as something unique, and reality is a deliberate standard created by the media and other sets of rules. Thus, the artist's view of human individuality coincides with his view of democracy. The artist sees both only as labels and not as reality.

More: https://www.bieniek.at/md

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„Media Democracy - Rendezvous of Truth,“ 120 x 150 cm. Oil on canvas, 1995. A media-critical painting by Sebastian Bieniek (born 1975). Berlin-based artist.

Signed on the front (lower right) and back. Titled on the back. Website: https://www.bieniek.at/m

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The "all-seeing eye" becomes the "tree of knowledge"

As can be seen in this image, a tree emerges from the eye, which rests on the legs of an old man and is located within a screen (television or computer monitor). A tree whose branches wind like the body of a snake. A tree, therefore, that becomes a snake, which brings us to the iconography from the biblical story of the Garden of Eden. The Tree of Knowledge.

The red apple appears to be the acorn of a phallus. Is the Tree of Knowledge, then, being portrayed here as a media-dominated instrument of manipulation and control? That, at least, seems to be the artist's message.

For Bieniek, therefore, cognition is merely a kind of program and a sequence of commands, not the knowledge stylized in the Western tradition that allows the knower to see more than others. Quite the contrary. Bieniek denies the measurability of knowledge in the sense of measuring depth or breadth...

More: https://www.bieniek.at/md

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Official website:

https://www.bieniek.at/md

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„MAMAface no. 20“, series of photographs by Sebastian Bieniek, 10.12.2024 (5 days before the birth). More: www.bieniek.at/ma

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MAMAface no. 19“, series of photographs by Sebastian Bieniek, 09.12.2024 (6 days before the birth). More: www.bieniek.at/ma

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New ath coming on $HIV

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Almost $20K -> Step by step.

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New Instagram Post is already dropped: https://www.instagram.com/p/DJYfXJfvFBC/

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