Heads
Olaf Breuning
'Heads' is a series by Swiss artist Olaf Breuning that brings together five individual works, each featuring a cartoonish face in profile with a thought bubble in the center. Breuning playfully adopts the iconography and experience of popular culture as a commentary on a generation that is intertwined with the internet. In approaching this series of sculptures he asks, 'How do we react to the avalanche of stimuli and information that the technological world floods us with?' He seeks to test the limits of humor and aesthetics to create moments of pausing and pondering.
The six-foot tall figures get our attention in the simplified emoji language of the internet, but in doing so they get passersby to step outside the flow of information and look at their mirrored surroundings anew, thus possibly giving way to deeper moments of reflection.
Materials: Chromed bronze and stainless steel
Year Installed: 2022