Vunkwan Tam

Vunkwan Tam

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Biography

Vunkwan Tam employs a range of media, including sculpture, video, text, sound, and installation, to explore themes associated with death, decay, and the malaise of late-stage capitalism. Tam's artistic practice can be likened to found poetry or cento, in which he arranges groupings of pre-existing objects and linguistic fragments, often sourced from online platforms, to construct condensed spatial narratives. These fugitive arrangements, which are sensitive to their surroundings and often improvised, repurpose the decontextualized material of semiocapitalism in order to conduct an excavation of communal affect. Tam's work operates within the slippery realm of internet culture, which is characterised by a fusion of irony, hyperbole, and half-truths. A notable example of Tam's approach is his work 78i78 (2022), which features a bedraggled L-shaped blanket lying on the floor serving as a metaphor for the dramatised emotional wallowing often associated with contemporary culture. ...

Selected Artworks
Untitled (A billionaire unveils an electric truck styled after a 1996 polygon render)
Vunkwan TamUntitled (A billionaire unveils an electric truck styled after a 1996 polygon render), 202015 x 47 x 34cmPrice on Request
L.O
Vunkwan TamL.O, 202120 x 140 x 11cmPrice on Request
Untitled (The traffic noise arched over a bubbling mass of public conversation and pattering footste...
Vunkwan TamUntitled (The traffic noise arched over a bubbling mass of public conversation and pattering footsteps on concrete), 2021182 x 229cmPrice on Request
lest you-will-strike against-the-stone your-foot
Vunkwan Tamlest you-will-strike against-the-stone your-foot, 202272.6 x 51.4 x 0.5cmPrice on Request
XXX
Vunkwan TamXXX, 2022120 x 120 x 0.5cmPrice on Request