Talk War

Rendered in stark black and white, the work stages a tense symmetry: two near-identical figures confront each other, their bodies anchored yet their identities destabilized as elongated tongues become tusks that interlock like crossed blades. The scratched, graphic linework turns flesh into etching, amplifying a sense of raw nervous energy while the empty darkness around them reads as a psychological void rather than a physical space. Suspended above, a small hovering device and a cold geometric form below suggest a world of surveillance and systems—mechanisms that preside over human exchange—so that communication appears less like dialogue than a ritualized duel where each speaker is also weapon and witness.