Gods, Monsters, Hybrids – An encounter with intermediate automotive creatures at the Paris Motor Show 2006
Fabian Kröger shows how automobile design is changing from functional to symbolic elements by taking up mythological influences and animalistic elements. The Paris Motor Show 2006 revealed this trend, showcasing concept cars that merge divine, demonic, and zoomorphic references. Renault, Citroën, and Peugeot infuse vehicles with totemic significance, embodying human dreams, fears, and aspirations. Automobiles are transformed into symbolic, ritualistic artifacts that blur the lines between man, machine, and nature. These creative stagings embody anthropomorphic dreams, fears and self-images and the ritual charge of the automobile as a transcendental object beyond purely functional utility.