This piece from Hersoid’s current exhibition pulls no punches. It’s a sharp visual pivot from the lethargic stillness of the seated quartet to something far more cinematic and brutal: an ambush, a collapse, or maybe just the final act of late-stage capitalism played out on a sun-bleached pavement. Three suited figures lie splayed in contorted …
Monthly Archives: June 2025
The wait
Hersoid’s new piece from the latest exhibition—seen here with its melancholic quartet slumped in a loose, purgatorial waiting room—draws a direct line from the existential dread of Kafka to the psychological dislocation of Beckett. The figures, rendered in fragile linework and bleeding washes of orange-red ink, are not so much seated as suspended—dangling somewhere between …
Cashing out
Hersoid‘s latest artwork continues his signature approach of blending the mundane with the surreal, echoing themes of routine, alienation, and quiet absurdity. This piece builds on his existing oeuvre by juxtaposing everyday activities—such as using an ATM—with an intricate, almost hypnotic background pattern. Composition & Themes: How It Fits with HERSOID’s Oeuvre:
9 to 5
In 9 to 5, HERSOID turns his sardonic gaze on the slickest tragedy of late capitalism: the corporate man—suited, salaried, slumped. This new series is a bruised ballet of unconscious bodies, each figure finely rendered and floating in negative space like discarded icons of a failed religion. These are not portraits of power, but of …
Collapse
In Collapse, HERSOID shifts from the glossy deceit of mass messaging (as seen in Mismanaged Consent) to a quieter, more intimate form of visual decay. This series presents a set of stark, almost forensic images—crumpled cars wrapped around ghostly tree trunks, a building folding in on itself like a failed thought—drawn with surgical precision and …
Despondency
In this piece from HERSOID’s new series Despondency, the tone shifts—but the critical acuity remains razor-sharp. Gone are the algorithmic overlays and biometric identifiers of Working Under Surveillance. Here, the violence is quieter, more intimate. We see a solitary figure curled into herself, crouched low, boots planted, arms wrapped around her knees, face half-hidden behind …
Working under surveillance
HERSOID’s Working Under Surveillance series is a biting, poetic critique of algorithmic oversight and the quiet violence of modern data culture. By overlaying facial recognition markers and alphanumeric IDs onto anachronistic figures—farmhands, gauchos, workers drawn from pastoral or folkloric pasts—the series constructs a visual language that’s both absurd and alarming. It stages a conceptual collision …