Cezar Brandao sculpts digital 3D portraits of exiles from a lovelier and chillier plane. Some have the faces of renegade sexdroids- all babydoll pouts and anime doe eyes- with looks that could eviscerate. Others look like beached mermaids or alien refugees, exquisitely homesick. FKA Twigs video. If you had worn their skins, you would have thrived in high school. Upon closer inspection, they unnerve. The rare smile is always off-kilter, occasionally with a hint of pyromaniacal or patricidal tendencies.
Many of them are sensual, some even subtly erotic, but none of them are sexy. Expecting a glass-shattering, mic-dropping take-down of the male gaze, I ask him if his art is political. He laughs and says no. He is flattered but utterly flummoxed by the intense think pieces bloggers ooze about his art. His computer is full of pieces he cannot show because his emotions, at the time, were not visceral enough. He began his digital art career in video game design, where female characters are expected to look like Secret Service members who moonlight as naked sushi models.
In the industry, copying-and-pasting character models are de rigeur. When people see my art, they feel emotion. Email address:. First Name:. Please reload the page. Beautiful Bizarre Magazine takes your privacy seriously, we will never share your information without your express permission.
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