The Augmented Puma - Oil Painting - Exhibited at the Carrousel du Louvre from October 18 to 20, 2024.

Work exhibited at the Carrousel du Louvre from October 18 to 20, 2024. 

In this visually striking creation, the puma is captured mid-leap, embodying a fascinating synthesis between the wild nature and cutting-edge technology. Through this representation, the artist reveals one half of the animal's body, where circuits, wiring, and mechanical parts intertwine with flesh, symbolizing a profound hybridization. The left eye of the feline, replaced by a luminescent bionic sensor of vibrant green, gives its gaze an almost supernatural intensity, enhancing its role as an unyielding and methodical predator.

The aesthetics of the work rests on the striking contrast between the softness of the organic fur and the coldness of the metal, embodying both the fluid elegance of the puma and the unfailing precision of machines. Fragments of material seem to disintegrate around its body, as if it were piercing reality itself in its movement, evoking speed, transformation, and gradual dematerialization.

"The Augmented Instinct" explores the themes of the fusion between the biological and the technological, questioning the future evolution where the animal and the machine would merge into a new form of existence. The puma, a creature as natural as it is mechanized, transcends its own essence here, embodying a reflection on the interaction between the living and the artificial.This work invites us to contemplate the raw beauty of a predator that, while maintaining its wild grace, is propelled into an era of mechanical perfection.

The scene, where power and precision converge, raises questions about the place of the living in an increasingly AI and mechanically dominated world. The puma, once a symbol of natural purity and instinct, here becomes the bearer of a new era, one where the boundaries between biology and technology blur to give way to an augmented entity, both terrifying and fascinating.

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