Ines Aberdeen- BA (Hons) Fine Art
Most Valuable Players
What does it mean that young men have been sold their own misery back to them? Ines’ practice mocks incel culture and the manosphere - ‘the end of men’ - as symptomatic performances of late capitalism. She examines the behaviour and alienation of these men in the digital world, borne from the same systems that exploit them.
Her work is grounded in drawing, often accompanied by text appropriating the rhetoric of online masculine subcultures. It is a research heavy approach, finding material in scrutinising the forums that form the obsession with bone structure and ‘the blackpill’ - a nihilistic ideology that favours genetics.
The manosphere does not exist in isolation. It is monetised, laundered into the mainstream by the same media apparatus that rediscovers it with performative alarm. Ines’ work is a commentary on men, on the cultures that form them and then exploit them, and on the institutions that depend on their compliance.
