Hyperflesh

The Hyperflesh collection by Macaco+ rises as a brutal and deeply ironic visual commentary on the contemporary anatomy, stripped of its intimate context and reduced to a mere sign in the maelstrom of consumer culture. Across six horizontal panels of digital graphic art, charged with high aesthetic tension, Macaco+ presents the body not as a temple, but as a failed construct or a damaged archive corrupted by the relentless demands of the market and the gaze.

In this series, the artist undertakes an archaeological excavation into the mass visual imaginary, taking fragments of female bodies extracted from fashion magazines and erotic publications. These fragments, already objects of commercial or intimate exploitation, are subjected to a process of digital disintegration with a dual purpose: to criticize objectification and to reveal an alternative beauty, one born from being (ser) and not from valuing (valer).

The central element of Hyperflesh is strategic fragmentation. By lacking a face, the bodies lose their identity anchor, transforming into plastic, anonymous extensions of an ideal. The dissolution of edges and the forced union of these fragmented parts is a curatorial gesture that seeks to dissolve their value as a mere object of consumption. By juxtaposing, mixing, and fusing the limbs, Macaco+ disarticulates the notion of a coherent, singular body, exposing how hyper-sexualized and commercialized culture treats the body as a bank of interchangeable aesthetic organs.

The limits of representation are explored to their maximum expression. Distortions at the image edges not only illustrate actual corporal distortion (surgery, digital retouching) but also the perceived distortion, the one imposed by the social eye.

The defining factor of the collection is the irruption of the Glitch gesture.

Deliberately incorporated, the Glitch acts as an element of Aesthetic Rebellion. It counters the surgical perfection and premeditation with which the original images were captured. Every dislocated color stripe, every instance of digital noise, and every Bitmap error is a programmed aesthetic accident that shatters the simulacrum of perfection.

In the language of Macaco+, the Glitch is the grace of error. It is a reminder that reality escapes the matrix, that the code is broken, and it is in that rupture that authenticity emerges.

Hyperflesh is an act of visual protest that culminates in a question: where does the body’s value reside?

Macaco+ proposes a redefinition. It does not seek the restoration of the image but the celebration of its collapse. In the fragmentation, the lack of refinement, and the aesthetic tension of the Glitch, the collection reveals a new truth: authentic beauty emerges when the pressure to “value” (in terms of market, validation, or desirability) is set aside in favor of simply “being,” in all its chaotic and glorious imperfection. The series invites the viewer to confront their own gaze and find the potency of the body in its state of manifest error.