João Cardoso
Pido ayuda
2021

Name: Pido ayuda
Brand: João Cardoso
Price: 4913.79 USD
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About the Item

PIDO AYUDA title means looking for help and this came up when during the painting João Cardoso found an article that had the same title and it was about a man looking for his automatic vacuum cleaner that left his apartment. This present experience led João to take the idea further where the “machine/human” is dependent on other automats as lies down on the floor, desperately trying to reach a plug. In this artwork scenario the interpretation has two sides, where the right side figure is feeling frightened by the evolution of the society as tries to avoid fire, the energy of the past. This scenario feels like an interpretation of Allegory of the cave, a story that illustrates the different scenes of reality based on our human will of exploration. With thoughts on 21st century humans and their future, João Cardoso concludes that technology brings tools for two extremes. Thus, technology, as a much needed tool to explore new means of life and solutions for the current world, also, it is responsible for extinguishing value from the human race. João believes that we are now on a big switch towards turning ourselves into mechanical figures and that actually only few of us will be valued only for our human condition. However, despite this fatalistic ideology, his work satirically predicts scenarios in a near future, and mixes it up with concepts of modern life where us humans are both the creators and bodies of study for robots to flourish. With this in mind, questions such as “The matter of love? “, “Will we need a pet to sustain our need for affection?”, “Can low battery mean being close to death?” or “Which moral values will be transported to the digital realm?” are some of the many that end up being reflected in his work through a “pop mechanical figure” named “Creature”. The main aim of João Cardoso work, besides exposing his personal concerns, is to raise awareness among humankind about our frail condition as humans but also to allow space in each persons mind to believe in the array of opportunities that technology can provide us.

Creator:

João Cardoso (1995, Portuguese)

Creation Year:

2021

Dimensions:

Height: 59.06 in (150 cm)Width: 70.87 in (180 cm)Depth: 1.58 in (4 cm)

Medium:

Acrylic

Movement & Style:

Contemporary

Period:

21st Century