Detox, Feminism and Refugees: Ironically Sarcastic Illustrations of Life in the 21st Century

2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55

Visualizing her own thoughts, (Eva Bee) creates life illustrations in which subtle humor, irony and themes are clearly visible, touching upon the everyday and global problems of a modern person living in a difficult 21st century, where everything is possible, but for some reason you don’t want anything.

Telephone addiction, unfounded feminism, an attempt to impose your opinion and outlook on life, the eternal pursuit of imaginary ideals, the desire to seem better than you really are, a string of contradictions, a constant fear of not meeting norms, frameworks and criteria, an imaginary fear of being rejected, flaunting feelings, hypocrisy, meanness and many other far from the most pleasant little things that make up modern mankind are well noticed and perfectly played in the works of the British artist.

Without fear of society, that at any moment she can take her work with hostility, she shows the whole truth of life, without even trying to smooth out the sharp corners that emerge in one or another illustration. An oppressed guy, like a character of an old game from the 90s, jumps on the keys of an iPhone, trying not to bump into sharks scurrying back and forth, a pensive girl with a sad face, looks without much enthusiasm at a glass of effervescent tablets, which, according to the manufacturer, simply must be done life is brighter, and the body is cleaner. A pretty woman with a friendly smile, lures homeless animals, gently stroking them, as if on purpose does not pay attention to the fact that a man with a huge hammer is standing behind her back.

Refugees with children in their arms set foot on the British trail, hoping that they will be welcomed with an open mind, but how deep and careless are their delusions. Asian children, in order to avoid their own punishment, shamelessly substitute their neighbor, trying to play a benefactor to the end, calming and persuading them to cry, because no one can cancel the sentence, and a shot will definitely have to be shot in the head. The Briton, plugging his ears with nuclear missiles, mentally curses Turkey for the fact that it still exists on the world map, and young people on different parts of the planet continue to play love, scribbling messages on social networks.

Photographer Fricke Janssens loves to shock the public with a scandalous series of works, where there appear something so similar to people in their ignorance.