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In a chilling dialogue across centuries, KÜMA masterfully reinterprets the tormented grandeur of Francis Bacon's screaming popes and the stoic authority of Velázquez's Innocent X. This artwork is a hyperreal descent into a new kind of power – one that is both divine and disturbingly manufactured. The pristine, almost clinical white garments are stained with a visceral echo of suffering, while the golden headpieces and shadowed eyes speak of a veiled, inescapable control.
Here, the screams are internalized, replaced by a silent, ominous presence. KÜMA dissects the essence of absolute power and the vulnerability beneath, presenting it as a glamorous yet terrifying vision for the modern age of villainy.
In a chilling dialogue across centuries, KÜMA masterfully reinterprets the tormented grandeur of Francis Bacon's screaming popes and the stoic authority of Velázquez's Innocent X. This artwork is a hyperreal descent into a new kind of power – one that is both divine and disturbingly manufactured. The pristine, almost clinical white garments are stained with a visceral echo of suffering, while the golden headpieces and shadowed eyes speak of a veiled, inescapable control.
Here, the screams are internalized, replaced by a silent, ominous presence. KÜMA dissects the essence of absolute power and the vulnerability beneath, presenting it as a glamorous yet terrifying vision for the modern age of villainy.