BURQA EX CARNE (from the series Human Fragility) Resin and ballistic gel sculpture, approx. 165 cm Anthropomorphic figure covered by a drapery recalling the form of a burqa. The surface, made of resin and ballistic gel, simulates the texture of flesh. The work belongs to the Human Fragility series, focused on the relationship between body, identity and social vulnerability.
Fabio Weik’s project stages a collision between a machine of death and the fragile persistence of nature. The structure recalls the outline of kamikaze drones deployed in the current war between Russia and Ukraine, devices programmed to erase life from a distance, their attacks circulating endlessly through social media feeds. These images of vertical descents, of targets consumed by a remote eye, constitute a new grammar of war, a vision in which sight itself becomes execution.
FABIO WEIK 