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The World State: Ecstatic and Stable
Mixed-Media Analog Collage, 50x40 cm, Found Material, Japanese Watercolor and Gold Leaf Paint, Bombay Ink on Watercolor Paper
Exhibition: Places that Aren’t, Božidarac National Gallery, Belgrade, Serbia, 2025
“Soma, half a gramme for a half-holiday, a gramme for a weekend, two grammes for a trip to the gorgeous East.”
— Aldous Huxley, Ch. 5, Brave New World
The faster life becomes, the more our inclination is to chase away the pain of yesterday and tomorrow - and thus was born The World State, a triumph of engineered harmony with a drop of narcotics, where suffering has been traded for stability, and every citizen finds purpose, pleasure, and peace by design. Freed from the chaos of choice and the burden of history, humanity thrives in a meticulously balanced society where happiness is not a pursuit, but a guaranteed right, no, an obligation. But if everything is perfect, and there is no suffering or struggle to measure your achievements against, will you even feel anything at all? - Moshe Shamah
The World State: Ecstatic and Stable
Mixed-Media Analog Collage, 50x40 cm, Found Material, Japanese Watercolor and Gold Leaf Paint, Bombay Ink on Watercolor Paper
Exhibition: Places that Aren’t, Božidarac National Gallery, Belgrade, Serbia, 2025
“Soma, half a gramme for a half-holiday, a gramme for a weekend, two grammes for a trip to the gorgeous East.”
— Aldous Huxley, Ch. 5, Brave New World
The faster life becomes, the more our inclination is to chase away the pain of yesterday and tomorrow - and thus was born The World State, a triumph of engineered harmony with a drop of narcotics, where suffering has been traded for stability, and every citizen finds purpose, pleasure, and peace by design. Freed from the chaos of choice and the burden of history, humanity thrives in a meticulously balanced society where happiness is not a pursuit, but a guaranteed right, no, an obligation. But if everything is perfect, and there is no suffering or struggle to measure your achievements against, will you even feel anything at all? - Moshe Shamah