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Artwork details
- Medium : Digital on Plexiglas , Plexiglass
- Framing : Framed
- Dimensions : 31.5x31.5in
- Edition : 2 / 3
- Artist's proof : 1
About this artwork
Modeling amplifies the codes of fashion and advertising to question how the Black male body is constructed, consumed, and idealized.
This work is a Lightbox. Printed on Perspex, you have actual light coming out of it!
The figure stands frontal, sculptural, almost hyperreal skin rendered with a glossy, exaggerated finish that transforms the body into surface, object, and symbol all at once. Strength, perfection, and control are pushed to the point… where admiration becomes ambiguity.
Through this confrontation, the work exposes the mechanisms of desire and projection: what is celebrated, what is simplified, and what is erased. Modeling becomes less about the individual and more about the system of images.
This work is a Lightbox. Printed on Perspex, you have actual light coming out of it!
The figure stands frontal, sculptural, almost hyperreal skin rendered with a glossy, exaggerated finish that transforms the body into surface, object, and symbol all at once. Strength, perfection, and control are pushed to the point… where admiration becomes ambiguity.
Through this confrontation, the work exposes the mechanisms of desire and projection: what is celebrated, what is simplified, and what is erased. Modeling becomes less about the individual and more about the system of images.
Sar la Rouge
South Africa
Credentials
- Works on commission
“Some images are made to be consumed. Others are made to wake us up!” Sar la Rouge
I’m Sar La Rouge, a Franco-Togolese digital artist based in Cape Town. My work combines photography, digital collage, and new technologies to explore how images influence the way we see ourselves and the world around us.
Using photographs from my personal archive, I create layered and colourful compositions that mix emotion, culture and identity. As a self-taught artist, I approach digital art freely and intuitively, always experimenting with new ways to create.
My work often touches on themes of femininity, technology, and contemporary society, while celebrating visibility, and self-expression.
Today, I continue to expand my practice through physical prints, immersive installations, video, and AI, using digital art as a space without limits.
I’m Sar La Rouge, a Franco-Togolese digital artist based in Cape Town. My work combines photography, digital collage, and new technologies to explore how images influence the way we see ourselves and the world around us.
Using photographs from my personal archive, I create layered and colourful compositions that mix emotion, culture and identity. As a self-taught artist, I approach digital art freely and intuitively, always experimenting with new ways to create.
My work often touches on themes of femininity, technology, and contemporary society, while celebrating visibility, and self-expression.
Today, I continue to expand my practice through physical prints, immersive installations, video, and AI, using digital art as a space without limits.
Sar la Rouge
Modeling
$2,510