The Future is Not For Humans: Yusk Imai
“In pursuit of health, happiness and power, humans will gradually change first one of their features and then another, and another, until they will no longer be human…”
- Yuval Noah Harari (Homo Deus)
The Future is Not For Humans is a continuation of Yusk Imai’s exploration of what it means to be human in an age of rapid technological advancement.
In this series of works, Imai imagines a future where human beings ‘glitch’ as they struggle through the evolutionary changes necessary for existence in a wholly non-physical reality. One where self-identity, perception and human connection have become a purely digital experience.
Dissolving relationships, dissociating from their identities, shedding flesh. They transform into fragmented, formless digital ghosts; untethered from all that made them human.
What remains is the transcendence of our specifies. A post-organic neo human. Freed from the constraints of biology and physical connection, limitless and alone, they wander in search of something they don’t yet comprehend.
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Yusk Imai1983 ~ PresentDigital Platform, 2023Signed, titled and dated on front with holographic artist sealInk, acrylic & unicorn juice on cotton paper40 × 30 cm (unframed) -
Yusk Imai1983 ~ PresentMachine In Me, 2024Signed, titled and dated on front with holographic artist sealInk, acrylic & unicorn juice on cotton paper40 × 30 cm (unframed)
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Yusk Imai1983 ~ Presento que o algoritimo ve o coração não sente, 2023Signed, titled and dated on front with holographic artist sealInk, acrylic & unicorn juice on cotton paper40 × 30 cm (unframed)
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Yusk Imai1983 ~ PresentPicking Filters, 2023Signed, titled and dated on front with holographic artist sealInk, acrylic & unicorn juice on cotton paper40 × 30 cm (unframed)
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Yusk Imai1983 ~ PresentPublic Profile = NPC, 2023Signed, titled and dated on front with holographic artist sealInk, acrylic & unicorn juice on cotton paper40 × 30 cm (unframed)
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Yusk Imai1983 ~ PresentTransfuture, 2023Signed, titled and dated on front with holographic artist sealInk, acrylic & unicorn juice on cotton paper40 × 30 cm (unframed)
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Yusk Imai1983 ~ PresentWhere We’re Headed, 2023Signed, titled and dated on front with holographic artist sealInk, acrylic & unicorn juice on cotton paper40 × 30 cm (unframed)
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Yusk Imai1983 ~ PresentWireless Disconnection, 2024Signed, titled and dated on front with holographic artist sealInk, acrylic & unicorn juice on cotton paper40 × 30 cm (unframed)
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Yusk Imai1983 ~ PresentWWW What We Want, 2024Signed, titled and dated on front with holographic artist sealInk, acrylic & unicorn juice on cotton paper40 × 30 cm (unframed)
