cyrusian refugee crisis
This video overlays two forms of spectacle: the hypersexual pop-culture imagery of Miley Cyrus's stage performances, and documentation of the Syrian refugee crisis at its most brutal and desperate. The result is a violent juxtaposition. It feels like two magnets pushing against each other — war and celebrity, survival and entertainment, collapse and pleasure. In one frame, Cyrus straddles inflatable hot dogs, performs raw sexual theatrics, and commands stadium-scale desire. In the next, refugees flee bombed homes, cry, collapse, cling to life. These worlds coexisted in real time, but rarely in the same image. The work forces the viewer to confront this simultaneity. There is no moralizing, no explanation, no safe distance. The video presents the absurdity and horror of a world where one person's ecstasy unfolds beside another's annihilation. The piece carries urgency and detachment at once — as if the juxtaposition itself is too shocking to integrate. cyrusian refugee crisis exposes the psychic dissonance of contemporary life, where global pain and global pleasure happen side by side, equally broadcast, equally consumed.