Messiah 2.0

Media: Animation, Digital art, Oil on canvas

Year: 2025

Collection: EXPOS3D

Size (H x W): 120cm x 80cm (3 ft 11 ins x 2 ft 7 ins)

Size (W x H): 1440 x 2160 pixels

A bronze-like robotic figure is crucified against a burning sky, draped in white cloth and crowned with thorns. The wooden cross carries the inscription LOGOS, while two drones drift in the background, reshaping the atmosphere of the scene.

In Messiah 2.0, familiar religious imagery is recast through the language of technology. The painting holds together opposites: sacred and manufactured, ancient and futuristic, human gesture and mechanical form.

The animation rewinds through pivotal eras of history as the crucified robotic figure gradually sheds its machinery and becomes human. Moving backwards toward the time of the crucifixion 2,000 years ago, it ends with a fully human Christ at Golgotha before looping back into the machine age.