A Brussels-based self-taught sculptor named Matteo Ingrao has built a coffee set out of synthetic human skin — complete with real hair, lips, a nipple, and an ear — and the internet cannot look away.
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Ingrao holds degrees in translation and multilingual communication and has zero formal art training. Yet he has spent years turning everyday objects into body horror using silicone moulded to look and feel like actual human flesh.
His goal is not to shock for shock’s sake. He deliberately designs his pieces to make you want to touch them and feel disgusted at the same time — what he calls “an ambivalent desire to touch while simultaneously stirring discomfort and aversion.”
The coffee set asks a simple, unsettling question: when your morning moka pot looks this alive, is making coffee still just a routine?