REEL huMAN

Reel Human is an ongoing series ephemeral sculptures built around a single silhouette — a generic human figure, hand-cut from an A4 sheet of paper. The universal pictogram. Functional, neutral, stripped of everything that makes a person specific.

Then the world shows up.

Flowers, skin, food, fabric, light, found objects. Each encounter plays somewhere between abstraction and figurative détail. The pictogram is useful precisely because it simplifies. The problem begins when the simplification becomes a prescription.

The images are taken on a phone, without controlled lighting or formal intent. The paper accumulates the traces of the process — creased, stained, altered by handling. It starts immaculate. It doesn't stay that way.

Started as self-portraits, the series gradually expanded to include family and friends, and has since grown beyond a reference to a single person. The figure is a starting point, the associations are possible destinations.

Reel Human is a confrontation between an idea of the functional human being — simplified, schematic, universal yet efficient — and the stubborn, organic, irreducible reality of the world it lives in.