VICE TOMASOVIC

In this series of paintings, I examine the ethical and moral frameworks of contemporary society, focusing on the growing sense of superficiality and spiritual emptiness that defines our time. Rather than approaching ethics as a fixed system of values, I treat it as a shifting construct—one that is constantly redefined through social, technological, and cultural processes.

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Unlike my earlier works, which were built on dense compositions driven by a horror vacui principle, these paintings are deliberately reduced and open. They are structured around emptiness—not as absence, but as an active space that reflects the current state of nature, culture, technology, health, and spirituality, as well as the contradictions that emerge from their interaction.

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The series Singular Elsewhere consists of five paintings that function as speculative diagrams. Created without preparatory sketches, they develop through an intuitive process in which form and meaning evolve simultaneously. In this way, the works unify different directions from my previous practice into schematic representations of theoretical objects.

Artificial intelligence is present in the process as a tool. I use it to generate textual and conceptual fragments, which I then integrate into the paintings as structural elements. These inscriptions extend the image while simultaneously exposing the mechanisms of interpretation and the emptiness embedded in contemporary systems of knowledge.

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