– x – = +

Today’s reality gets faster by the day. Everything is at your fingertips and everyday is assisted by artificial intelligence. We are near the peak of perfection, understood in a collective, anthropocentric sense. 
But we as humans are still lacking. In pursue of non-existent final form of mimetic beauty we are just pushing the line of our sense of esthetics to a globalistic and easily digestible direction. This unified way of thinking creates an illusion of art consumption which in the essence is just a low-effort, sterile entertainment that is getting brought to our living spaces. A spectacle. 
Nevertheless, we can observe a need for ambivalent, dirty or/and extreme emotions in the part of the internet labeled with prefix – ‘’pato-’’. And that where my study begins.
“- x – = +” draws from, ‘’pato-‘’, brainrot advertisements estetic and creativity resulted from technical limitations. I wanted to achieve a transitional character of the world where Tuwim’s “Wacky Ducky” – representing “old” world clashes with exaggerated today’s reality pushed through dystopian filter. The story lacks of plot(as in Tuwim’s work), but still has its essence. Which in the end creates this unsettling and liminal character to the whole piece.
Term “filter” takes on an important role in my study, because I observed that it fits to a character of “Ducky”. In a sense she is a negative of an environment she is summoned to. She is an opportunistic contrarian. The tile “- x – = +” is a simple equation that in the video art represents the “negative” of “Ducky” times the symbolical inversion of reality.