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Simulacra and Simulation by Francisco Tavoni researches our connection with reality and how the media manipulates society into perceiving the ultimate truth.

This new body of work mimics the blurriness of reality that humans absorb daily from the media. The society of the spectacle has distorted our capacity to discern between truth and illusion.

As society seeks fulfillment through the simulacra of reality, the question previously asked by Jean Baudrillard in Simulacra and Simulation arises: “Are the mass media aligned with the power in manipulating the masses, or are they aligned with the …