ART text by TAYLORE SCARABELLI all artwork by ANNA UDDENBERG, courtesy of the artist and kraupa-tuskany zeidler, berlin after charles ray and matthew barney, the next step for hyperrealistic sculpture reflects cyborg culture and cyberfeminism fueled by sex, narcissism, and the technological transformation of the body and brain. Social media, once a place of discovery and refuge, has become both a utility and a social mediator, commodifying the images and perceived identities of ourselves and others. Once islands that offered an escape from daily life, these archipelagos have become filter bubbles — reinforcing narratives surrounding beauty, consumption, and normative behavior. Stranded, we lose sight of the horizon and surrounding landscape and instead look inward, replicating one another in our consumption habits and our performance of selfhood as a means to find validation online. Uddenberg’s art reflects this myopia, whether by constructing humanlike forms that render bodies into cyborgs (part-smartphone, part-silicone),…