ANDROID PLAZA - Bankers Banquet
In Bankers Banquet, Harman transforms a scene of wealth, power, and privilege into something unstable and unsettling. Faces dissolve, bodies fragment, and the certainty of the boardroom begins to break apart. The dinner table becomes a stage where authority itself appears corrupted.
The work is notable for Harman's development of a distinctive digital painting language. Rather than using digital tools to create perfection, he embraces distortion, glitch, erosion, and painterly accident. The result is a contemporary grotesque, recalling the psychological intensity of Francis Bacon, yet born entirely from the fractured realities of the digital age.
Nothing in the painting feels secure. The figures appear trapped inside the systems they helped create, their identities dissolving into streams of data, noise, and abstraction. Wealth is present, but meaning is absent. Communication takes place, yet nobody seems truly connected.
Bankers Banquet is less a portrait of bankers than a portrait of a civilisation consuming itself. The image flickers between representation and collapse, exposing the fragility beneath the polished surface of power.
Through Android Plaza, Harman continues to build a body of work exploring technology, capital, and contemporary life through a visual language that is uniquely his own, part painting, part digital malfunction, and entirely human in its anxieties. The banquet continues, the conversation continues, the consumption continues, yet the image suggests the system is already beginning to fail.
