27/04/2026
"We now live in a post truth society.
Information is weaponised everywhere.
To be powerful you need the strongest information army.
Using a microphone can kill but can also kill you.
It’s an instrument of warfare.
This war, this crisis is global.
We are not going to overcome misinformation, distortion and propaganda. The best we can do is manage it.
We have the tools: we have our reason and we have our emotions.
And to fight back we have our humanity."
Anne de Carbuccia
Anne de Carbuccia presents Sergeant S.N.A.F.U., a sculptural series that stages the
contemporary battlefield of information and the fierce fight for attention, perception
and truth. Communication is no longer neutral: it is deployed, targeted and
weaponized.
Meet Sergeant S.N.A.F.U., a stylized soldier whose weapon is actually a microphone.
The image is precise: language has become artillery and broadcast its ammunition at
scale. The historic military acronym S.N.A.F.U. (“Situation Normal, All Fu**ed Up”)
sarcastically defines a chaotic situation that has become the accepted norm.
In today’s information battlefield it frames a condition in which disorder is no longer
exceptional but operational. Misinformation, propaganda and incitement move like
weapons through global networks.
Rendered in chrome, the soldiers act as both armor and mirror, their reflective
surfaces capturing and implicating the viewer. Disorienting, reflective and seductive, they echo the polished surfaces of media systems designed to capture and dominate attention.
The soldiers evoke immediately legible toy figures. This familiarity sharpens the
tension: they are at once toys and instruments of control, mixing innocence and
militarization. They also reveal an invisible war driven by algorithms that amplify
division and escalate content.
The S.N.A.F.U. soldiers are the sentinels of a new kind of warfare, one without front lines, where the terrain is perception itself and casualties are truth and collective understanding.
With this series, Anne gives physical form to an otherwise intangible conflict: the fake news war where information is officially a weapon.