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Emoji holocaust

€ 700 

Valentinos Vassiliou

€ 700 

Valentinos Vassiliou

In “Emoji Holocaust”, Valentinos Vassiliou presents a haunting critique of emotional commodification in the digital age. The painting features a gumball machine stuffed with emojis—each representing a different, often conflicting emotion—ranging from joy and love to rage and despair. These once-playful symbols are no longer just icons of expression; they’re trapped in a glass capsule, mass-produced and dispensed with mechanical indifference. Below, a colorful sludge pours out, as if the weight of collective emotion has been ground into a synthetic, unreadable mess. It's a grotesque metaphor for how social media dilutes and devalues real human feeling.

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Description

Artist:

Valentinos Vassiliou

Category:

Acrylic

Style:

Impressionism

Size:

x

61

x

41

Year:

Materials:

Acrylic on camvas

Signed:

Yes

No

SKU:

VV-026

Frame:

Yes

No

Artist:

Valentinos Vassiliou

Category:

Acrylic

Style:

Impressionism

Size:

x

61

x

41

Frame:

Yes

No

Year:

Materials:

Acrylic on camvas

Signed:

Yes

No

SKU:

VV-026

Vassiliou's work invites reflection on the violence of uniformity and the flattening of complex inner states into quick consumable symbols. By naming the piece Emoji Holocaust, he confronts the viewer with the extreme consequences of dehumanization—hinting at both emotional erasure and historical trauma. The artist challenges us to ask: what happens when we mechanize emotion? What is lost when feeling becomes filtered through algorithmic expectation? In this bold and unsettling piece, Vassiliou doesn’t offer answers—only the raw, oversaturated truth.

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