Myth #7 presents male form as simultaneously precious and unsettling silver body sculpture art—valued artifact stripped of humanity. The metallic rendering explores erectness myths rooted in bipedal evolution, challenging narratives of human authority over species. Rey reimagines flesh as object-tool, subverting traditional virility codes through cold, imposing aesthetic.
 
The Myths of Human Erectness explores the human body as both subject and object, interrogating the myths surrounding masculinity, erectness, and human supremacy. The male figure emerges as something between flesh and artifact: inert yet monumental, sculptural yet estranged from its own humanity. It becomes an object of value —cold, metallic, imposing— echoing the aura of a silver statue, simultaneously precious and unsettling.
This transformation questions the inherited narrative of erectness —a symbol of dominance, progress, and ego rooted in the evolutionary leap from quadruped to biped— and the authority that humans have claimed over the world and other species.By reimagining the body as an object-tool, The Myths of Human Erectness subverts traditional visual codes of virility and power, inviting the viewer to reflect on the fragility of the human versus the object and the machinein a figurative photography.
 
Acquire Myth #7 silver body sculpture art questioning erectness narratives—precious artifact exploring masculinity versus permanence. From The Myths of Human Erectness. Available at The Art Design Project, Miami Beach.