Sons of the hive

This project is configured as a site-specific installation composed by several shelves with a thousand optical glass spheres. The image of a human fetus is engraved with laser in 3D inside each one of them, and the room is illuminated by LED light bands.  articulated under the idea of alienation of life even before being conceived. The production of the spheres, which will be done industrially, goes hand in hand with the concept of standardisation of the individual. Through the repetition of these orbs and the bands of LED light influencing them, a liturgical and bewildering relationship is sought by the spectator within the installation. Sons of the hive highlights current philosophical issues such as social production, the conversion of the individual into a standardised entity based on labor and consumption practices, the dissolution of individuality in favour of a report and repetitive collective mass.