When defining the temperament of recent times, the preoccupation with the Self seems to be an all-encompassing subject. A sense of radical individualism has dominated mainstream discourse. Society acts as a Self-image generating machine, and during this process, a special kind of visual isolation is achieved, one in which the other is no longer perceptible. A person becomes surrounded with their own likeness, and that likeness becomes comparable to a saint or a god. However this saintly figure is never perfect, ever-idealized, and unattainable. Alongside this realization arises a unique sense of emptiness, an underlying feeling of failure that one is never fully conscious of at one given moment.
Supported by Tokyo Wonder Site Emerging Artists Program (2009)
When defining the temperament of recent times, the preoccupation with the Self seems to be an all-encompassing subject. A sense of radical individualism has dominated mainstream discourse. Society acts as a Self-image generating machine, and during this process, a special kind of visual isolation is achieved, one in which the other is no longer perceptible. A person becomes surrounded with their own likeness, and that likeness becomes comparable to a saint or a god. However this saintly figure is never perfect, ever-idealized, and unattainable. Alongside this realization arises a unique sense of emptiness, an underlying feeling of failure that one is never fully conscious of at one given moment.
Supported by Tokyo Wonder Site Emerging Artists Program (2009)