Lawless No. 2 – A graphic cry against modern excesses.
In this powerful work, DYLÄKS depicts a rooster, once a vibrant symbol of rurality and harmony with nature, now reduced to an object of mass production. This rooster, adorned with an identification number like a commodity, embodies the brutal transition between the respectful livestock farming of yesteryear and the cold, dehumanized intensity of modern agro-industry.
The vivid palette, dominated by a soothing blue-green background, contrasts with the violence suggested by the red dripping beneath the rooster, as an allusion to the suffering hidden behind modern systems. The details in posca, Indian ink and marker enrich the texture of the work, giving life to each stylized feather, each drop, each beat of what remains natural in an industrialized world.
A sinuous electrocardiogram crosses the composition, symbol of an artificially maintained life but devoid of its essence. Sans foi ni loi n°2 is not only a painting, it is a message, a call to rediscover simplicity and respect for the living, a visceral nostalgia for the crowing of the rooster in a forgotten farmyard. A work as denunciatory as it is moving.
