With The Businessman, Arestakes offers a biting sculptural satire of the business world. This caricatured face, with its distorted and deliberately exaggerated features, seems to emerge from an inner theater: a strained smile, narrowed eyes, a mouth twisted by an unspoken word. The work exudes both expressive power and scathing irony, like a mirror held up to our modern compromises. The terracotta, worked in warm, earthy tones, accentuates the sensation of a social mask frozen in its own failings.
A play that is at once funny, disturbing and deeply human.
