Digital Collage 

80 x 50 cm / 2025

 

As a warning that history repeats itself, in this modern version of the biblical story, Adam and Eve are once again put to the test. When they finally ate the fruit as an act of disobedience, it opened the couple's eyes to all the evil that has plagued the world ever since. According to some sources, the apple of sin is in fact a representation of a pomegranate, but the two artists decided to go one step further - to the grenade itself. Similarly, in the original, it is the woman who is placed at the scene of the crime, but in this corrective exam, the placement of the man as the gender who, since his early youth, still cannot let go of the set of military figures is more than deliberate. The female garment as a simulation of nudity draws parallels with the ancient Greek Pandora, the first woman made of clay who - like Eve - destroyed paradise on Earth by her actions.

 

As building blocks for the construction of his own myth, Claudi likes to use already established narratives with a similar lesson to convey to the viewer, and to this end the story of the Garden of Eden is combined with the ancient Greek myth of Pandora's Box, and set up as a mirror for our own near future. Symbolically, then, both stories carry at their very core the human desire for undiscovered knowledge. And that is why in the visual version by Sovrè and Trampuž, the fatal tree is depicted in the form of a synthetic brain, or artificial intelligence, which we are excitedly using not only for our own benefit, but also as a weapon against ourselves. The artists were therefore inspired by a world that has often been heard of as going to hell lately.​​