Roman Cochet

Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY, USA

Artist statement

My work focus on a posthuman future. I maps a series of contingent realities devoid of the human subject. My paintings depict scenes in which humanity appears to have disappeared. A sense of desolation is palpable. Pieces of furniture, abandoned bottles, untamed vegetation, and somnolent animals coexist as relics of human civilization. These enigmatic spaces are possible afterimages of the Anthropocene. The remaining objects in I see my work as often blurred and interlaced, freely engaging with one another amid the dream-like ruin. The paintings, however, reincorporate a human touch and presence that laments its own vanishing. My sculptures can be seen as “half-plant, half-robot”. They are cast in resin and composed of a banal assortment of objects, from plastic vegetation to computer cables to a used mop. These “human pollution bubbles” or “fossils of the Anthropocene” capture a moment, possibly in the future, possibly now, when humanity is rendered superfluous to its own existence.

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