Cthulhucene Faces #5

Chuthulucene Faces #5 by Henrique Netto 
Melted plastics and electronic waste 
27 x 28 x 13 cm | 2023 
 
Faces formed from melted electronic waste over plaster casts — a possible embodiment of Electroctopus, born from its discarded gadgets.
The glittering, ad-slick mise en scène evokes fantasies of a pristine future, where we live in beautiful high-tech domes on Mars — sanitized dolls, the epitome of cosmopolitan urban life. But this vision is a lie.
We won’t evolve into Spock-like beings of pure logic, detached from emotion. Instead, we are heading toward mountains of waste, rising cancer rates, somatic and psychological disorders, deepening social divides, human hacking, and the collapse of Earth’s ecological balance.
The series takes its name from Donna Haraway’s concept of the Cthulhucene — the era beyond the Anthropocene, defined by entanglement, decay, and the consequences of our technological excess.