Viral claim

Exotic wood, natural materials (acorn shells, pine cone scales), resin
“21st Century” collection

Size: 59 cm x 30 cm x 55 cm (Height, Width, Depth)
Weight: 2 kg
2019 Berlin

– Your data is forever – Yourself is a number – I claim you –

“Viral Claim” embodies the unsettling permanence and invasive quality of modern digital footprints. The gleaming, dark eyes and vivid yellow-black pattern evoke the intensity of a creature that is both watchful and inescapable. With its wings extended, textured with intricate details that suggest data storage, the wasp appears as if poised to capture and catalog every movement. Its antennae curl forward, almost as if ready to scan and record, an extension of a system that claims identity.

This piece uses the concept of a viral invasion to comment on the persistence of data in the digital world. The wasp represents an entity that treats personal information as a commodity, reducing individuals to mere numbers in an eternal database. The work speaks to the way identity is digitally cataloged, suggesting an inescapable transformation of self into data, where privacy becomes a relic and individuality is distilled into bytes.