Artist Statement
My practice revolves around the term Cuck Art — a name I use deliberately
and precisely, stripped of its conventional erotic or humiliating connotations. Here,
cuck names an ontological condition of radical non-investment. A mode of presence
and witnessing without ownership or staking a claim, and at the same time, disowning the
seriousness of presence and witness-hood itself.
We are living inside a moment where meaning has become the superposition of a bleak concept
— having undergone so many rounds of deconstruction and recolonization that it is
unspeakable and oversaturated. To name your attachment feels excessive. It's too much cringe
to recognize a spectacle, and there is also too much cringe to defy a dysfunctional system.
Cuck Art moves into this fleeting territory, not to hold space for the lack as a working
canvas, but simply to be there.
I think about my own position in the gallery as a kind of cuck. I am physically present where
none of the work is mine. No viewer comes for me. No transaction belongs to me. And yet I stay
longer than anyone, sitting with no real message, no role, no stake.
We are also living in the post-GLP-1 era of aesthetic, where technologies promise to engineer
away excess: appetite, longing, visible attachment. The body is being re-managed toward beauty
consensus, efficiency, seamless self-governance. Cucking is not to offer resistance or
condolences to the loss — resistance would cost too much. It is navigation through
impermanence.
The other pole of this work I call meaning maxing — total commitment to
white-labeling the sacred, to the highest available technology, which is spirituality.
Conniving with the entire sentient noosphere, making ritual practice a household norm,
reassigning meaning to everything on earth, treating existence as a surface that can receive
inscription without limit.
These are not opposites that cancel each other. They are the two ends of a spectrum I intend
to fully inhabit — the complete deflation of significance and its total inflation, held
together in the same body of work.
