Syntax & Sensibility - ART IN BINARY
Dress Davii
Attention has been hacked into milliseconds. Too short to land an idea, too long for anyone to stay. What remains is a blur—a half-memory of something you might’ve seen before swiping it into oblivion.
The gatekeepers have gone ghost. They’re faceless, formless, and impossible to confront. You only know they exist by the vacuum they leave behind: the likes that never arrive, the views that never load. Still, artists claw through the fog, daring the feed to notice them.
Survival demands shapeshifting. You can’t just be an artist—you have to be a marketing strategist, a content factory, a one-person PR team. Your reflection fractures into a dozen versions of yourself, each one selling, hustling, pleading to be the one that finally sticks.
And in the flood of hyper-visibility, sameness seeps in. Everyone’s unique expression starts to look like everyone else’s. Nuance requires a slow gaze—and who’s got time for that? Still, the artist resists. They sharpen their edges, knowing full well the feed will try to sand them down.
This work is a record of that refusal: to keep making, to keep speaking, to hold the frame even when the image is smudged, ghosted, or erased.
PHOTOGRAPHY Winston Sussens
STYLING Michelle Parrilla
SET DESIGN Menes Zlatoper
HAIR Cecilia Pranz REPRESENTED BY Bigoudi
MAKE-UP Anna Conzelmann REPRESENTED BY Peppermint Circus
TALENT Ida H REPRESENTED BY Let It Go Management
SET DESIGN ASSISTANT Tuğba Gürsoy & Nina Končić
SHOT AT Velt Studio
A study in making noise when the machine would rather you stay quiet. The young artist today is expected to perform miracles: persist through the static, dodge the algorithm’s chokehold, and meet demands no generation before has faced. Censorship now isn’t a man with a gavel—it’s binary. Ones and zeroes. The same code that builds the work also buries it.
To create now is to hurl yourself into the abyss with no guarantee of an echo. There’s no shortage of voices telling you to “speak your truth.” They just forgot to mention the part where no one’s listening. Visibility and perception are no longer twins—one can exist without the other.
Top & Boots Julia Vogler, Catsuit Essai
(Left) Blazer Litkovska, Shirt MRZ, Briefs Prada, Tights Calzedonia, Heels Helena Stölting (Middle) Blazer Laurin Schuler, Heels Helena Stölting (Right) Shirt MRZ, Tie & Belt Dior @dior, Jeans Litkovska, Heels Helena Stölting
Top Laura Obst, Skirt Evade, Boots Julia Vogler
Dress Laurin Schuler, Gloves by Pānuco
Dress Davii, Tights Calzedonia, Heels Balenciaga
Top by Helena Stölting
Top Laura Obst, Skirt Evade