RJCrash

Rooted in the visual legacies of Andy Warhol’s Death and Disaster series, this body of work transports these mid-20th-century anxieties into the 21st century, rehashing the profound psychological effects of technological development on modern humans.

The car crash—once a shocking moment of tragedy—was processed, reimagined, and stripped of its original power by Warhol who used its iconography to emphasize society’s desensitization to violence. RJ takes this narrative a step further by exploring an even more profound crisis: the collapse of reality itself.

Using AI to recreate some of history’s most iconic car crashes (James Dean, Niki Lauda, Princess Dianna, etc.), RJ presents the vehicles of Crash not as objects of desensitization, but as the products of derealization.

Never before has it been more difficult to ascertain reality. RJ masterfully explores the very fragility of truth in his Verse debut Crash. His works capture this modern anxiety through fragmented reflections of a digital world where history and memory can be rewritten with a keystroke, leaving us detached from the very events we witness.