Robert Brambora confronts the hidden machinery of neoliberal society, exposing how its relentless pressures twist the individual’s mind, body, and daily life through a sharply Marxist lens. His practice engages with the psychological and social consequences of contemporary life, addressing subjects such as precarious labor, school dropouts, stress-related illness, anxiety, loneliness, housing insecurity, and urban overcrowding. At its core, his work reflects on alienation—the disconnection from self and society—while also exploring how these conditions warp our experience of time, creating disorientation and a pervasive sense of lost bearings. Out of this turbulence, Brambora seeks to reveal a kind of waking hallucination, an oniric space where crisis and imagination intersect. His practice unfolds along two main trajectories. On one side, he employs traditional techniques, producing paintings and ceramics that give form to inner states of vulnerability and unease. On the other hand, he creates large-scale text panels, laser-engraved with overlapping fragments drawn from diverse sources: political commentary, online exchanges, financial discourse, medical research, and theoretical texts. By layering these excerpts into complex visual fields, Brambora constructs architectural-like compositions where language itself becomes material. These works reflect the overwhelming density of information in contemporary life, translating systemic pressures into poetic yet unsettling visual forms. ...
