Filip Custic explores transhumanism through ‘Human Product’

Filip Custic once again transports us to a weightless world of objects, hyperrealism, visual games and optical balances through his first show in Japan titled ‘Human Product’. A solitary exhibition in which he questions human existence, our ability to upgrade ourselves as an operating system and our burning tendency to create complex systems that give meaning to our lives.

The neo-surrealist artist returns to materialize a series of parallel realities through objectism, and all the concepts suspended around that symbolist movement, such as suspension, fragmentation or digital craftsmanship in Parco Museum Tokyo. Thus, Custic will ephemerally exhibit from April 7 to 24 all that visual and aesthetic imaginary through a collection of ingenious and subversive images that change the usual perception of things.

Filip then displays in ‘Human Product‘ the essence of his artistic practice, exploring the relationship between body, mind and technology, and how these three elements interact to shape our identity. A work focused on internet culture and the symbolism, form and capacity for change represented through photography, video, sculpture and performance.

Humans are transformed here into products, into uniform characters that are masked and retouched with Photoshop, to appear as a silicone “other self”. An artistic concept inspired by capitalism and the latent individualism in society, as well as a reflection on our own identity and our body, and how transhumanism or those technological transformations could change everything; questioning who we are and what self-imposed social models we respond to.