Merzmensch - secret society

From the series: HalluciNation
Paper: Hahnemühle Fine Art Archival Print
Sheet size: 40 × 40 cm with 1 cm white border around the motif.
Year: Edition of 2025
Edition: 3 + 1 AP
Signed, dated and edition numbered by the artist on a separate label.

Merzmensch – Secret Society

Welcome to the ceremony. You weren't invited—but you're already here.

In "Secret Society," Merzmensch stages a surrealist fever dream shrouded in ceremonial precision. A single masked figure sits serenely in the foreground, dressed in dusty pink and flanked by an assembly of identical, faceless figures. Their robes, embroidered and decorated with spheres, evoke a blend of plague doctor, medieval mystic, and speculative science fiction.

The composition is precise, the mood unsettling. Every surface is laden with symbolism: time, secrecy, ritual, observation. The figures' empty faces resemble clockwork eyes or surveillance lenses. Who is watching whom?

Like all works in the HalluciNation series, this one is not a depiction of the world as it is, but as it is dreamed. A hallucinatory fiction constructed from fragments of history, paranoia, and baroque fantasy.

For collectors of the uncanny, the sacred and the speculative.