Masters of the 

Universe

                                           articulates power as a learned condition, formed through repetition, identification, and affect rather than conscious agreement. The work engages visual languages associated with childhood and mass culture to examine how authority, legitimacy, and moral orientation are culturally inscribed before they become objects of conscious reflection.

The sculpture frames power as embodied and relational. Scale, surface, and posture function as mechanisms through which hierarchy is naturalized and desire aligned with dominance. Moral perception shifts with position, revealing ethics not as stable principles but as contingent outcomes of social location and internalized narratives.

By activating early cultural models, the work exposes the persistence of formative structures that continue to shape behavior, empathy, and self-understanding. These structures do not dissolve with maturity, but remain operative, subtly informing how authority is recognized and legitimacy affirmed. Masters of the Universe functions as a site of recognition, where inherited assumptions about value, power, and agency are rendered visible and open to reconsideration.

[Masters of the Universe. ca. 146 x 60 x 216 cm. Stoneware, engobes, gold lustre, steel frame, concrete, urethane, plaster. 1200 °C, oxygen. 2020.] 

35 389,20 € (+ tax 10%)