A Boy And His Dog


various epoxy resins, rubber military protective clothes, PET bottles, plastic straws, 2006


 
...Boy and His Dog resemble characters from post-apocalyptic anti-utopia movies, stories whose protagonists live in a post-catastrophe world, recycling the remnants of a fallen
civilisation and building peculiar hybrids of advanced technologies and primitive, improvised survival techniques. The question of technology plays an important role in many of Bakowski’s works.
The artist often reaches for a convention that could be described low-tech cyberpunk: the human being is in a state of symbiosis with technology here, while at the same time being oppressed by it...

 


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