Divining Karmageddon // DAMN (Issue 85)

Do the images in our Instagram feeds have a life beyond our phones? What will be left of us when the cycle of consumption has spun us into the abyss? Exploring the brutality and ruthlessness of our times, artist Martin Eder peddles the superficiality that permeates digital culture, to deliver us at the precipice of consciousness. His oil paintings – best described as explosive divinations – consider the fallout of dopamine culture as a doomsday scenario in which the very presence of beauty suspends belief.