Yellow-Blue 2002-03
Oil on canvas
171 x 230cm
We stare at the world and the world looks back. This work is about what people do, and how we exist within passivity, a state formed through a condition based in viewing, in looking on, consuming, enacting and partaking through inaction. These
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Throughout my work I have been primarily interested in the suggestive possibilities between the images, and the open narrative I can create by juxtaposing the interior and exterior world beside each other. Portraits next to landscape, for example, and the tension between these two environments.
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Some artist’s work has the capacity to take you places that most never can, transporting you to allegorical destinations using poetry as its fuel. Ben Ali Ong’s imagery circumvents those stubborn inadequacies of the often clumsy language we utter, crafting vocabularies to address the sublime. There ...
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We approach Forthun's work initially as an architectural plan. The titles instruct us to consider the paintings like maps that might guide us through space. 'Through the Heads' directs our eye to the connection between harbour inside and ocean outside. The world laid out on a horizontal pane command ...
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Explosion (Operation Cue, 1955) has been created using short fragments from Operation Cue, a 1955 documentary (revised in 1964), which, like much of the found footage Wise has used in recent work, is available on open source web-based video archives. The original documentary was produced to educate ...
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