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Andrea Scrima
Loopy Loonies: Attempts at a Late-Capitalist Moral Philosophy

For the past ten years, Andrea Scrima has been working on a group of drawings titled Loopy Loonies, in which a visual vocabulary of splats, speech bubbles, animated letters, and other anthropomorphized figures take contemporary cartoon images and the violence embedded in them as their point of departure. These are accompanied by a series of texts titled A Look in the Mirror: Attempts at a Late-Capitalist Moral Philosophy.

Against the backdrop of war and social division, words such as NO, EWWW, OWWW, or EEEK appear as expressions of dissent, disgust, pain, or fear. The result is a visual and literary exploration of sociopolitical themes in a time of polycrisis: the abuse of language, a media-induced dulling of the senses, moral ambivalence, and empathy.