Merzmensch - I in a hurry

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 – I’m in a hurry

What is time when you overtake yourself?

In "I'm in a Hurry," an elderly gentleman rushes across an empty beach in multiple versions—or is it the memory of it? The scene is as comic as it is philosophical: the identical figure multiplies in a kind of visual hallucination, as if the mind were accelerating within itself in an attempt to escape its own transience.

In the series HalluciNation, Merzmensch plays with the surreal echo of his own identity. The title of the series can be interpreted in two ways – as a hallucination of the nation or as a nationality of the hallucination. In both cases, it is about collective and individual perception, about self-images that are no longer stable but are fragmented in the digital mirror.

The figure depicted seems both determined and lost. Is it a rush before death or a defiant rebellion against stagnation? The sand remains untouched, the sky empty—only the human being in its repetition remains. "Me in a Hurry" is a fleeting self-reproduction, a visual metaphor for our time: too many versions of ourselves on the move—fleeing from the now.