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  "publishedAt": "2026-02-09T10:00:14.000Z",
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    "art.",
    "Annual Exhibition HFBK",
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    "artist",
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    "Emiliano Mondragón",
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    "Gennaro Costanzo",
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  "textContent": "What does the lethal exoskeleton of a cinematic predator have in common with the stiff, slightly uncomfortable posture of a local politician? For Mexican painter Emiliano Mondragón, the intersection of the monstrous and the mundane is where the most honest version of the human condition resides. As the Hamburg-based artist prepares for the Annual Exhibition of the HFBK, running from 12 February to 15 February, he is readying a collection of new works that serve as a visceral reflection on our hyper-connected, often exhausting existence. At the centre of this debut is a painting titled ‘Watch Yourself Turn Into Nothing,’ a piece that merges human anatomy with the terrifying silhouette of a Xenomorph, the creature from the Ridley Scott’s ‘Alien’ film series. While the imagery leans into the legacy of cinematic horror, Mondragón uses it to dissect a more modern terror. He explains that beyond his admiration for H.R. Giger’s biomechanical nightmares, he is attempting to demonise our dependency on mobile phones. In his vision, an arm ends in a hand clutching a device which mimics the smaller mouth of the Alien – the one that pierces flesh and bone. “My intention was to show the phone as that killer... Read more »\n\nThe post emiliano mondragón | portraits of digital burnout appeared first on Schön! Magazine.",
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