lest you-will-strike against-the-stone your-foot

Vunkwan Tam

lest you-will-strike against-the-stone your-foot, 202272.6 x 51.4 x 0.5cmSign in to view price
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Material
Puzzle, polyurethane foam, glue on dibond
Description
Human-crafted. AI-refined.

This contemporary art piece features a striking black and white image of a female figure sitting on the ground, surrounded by broken glass. The prominent text "MADONNA" at the top suggests this may be a portrait or commentary on the renowned pop icon. The high-contrast, pixelated effect gives the image a gritty, industrial feel, highlighting the artist's use of digital manipulation techniques. The subject's pensive pose and the shattered glass create a sense of vulnerability, hinting at the complexities of fame and celebrity culture that the artist may be exploring through this work. ...

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Vunkwan Tam
Artist
Vunkwan Tam

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. ...

Vunkwan Tam: Artworks
Untitled (A billionaire unveils an electric truck styled after a 1996 polygon render)
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Untitled (A billionaire unveils an electric truck styled after a 1996 polygon render), 2020
15 x 47 x 34cm
L.O
Vunkwan Tam
L.O, 2021
20 x 140 x 11cm
Untitled (The traffic noise arched over a bubbling mass of public conversation and pattering footsteps on concrete)
Vunkwan Tam
Untitled (The traffic noise arched over a bubbling mass of public conversation and pattering footsteps on concrete), 2021
182 x 229cm
lest you-will-strike against-the-stone your-foot
Vunkwan Tam
lest you-will-strike against-the-stone your-foot, 2022
72.6 x 51.4 x 0.5cm
XXX
Vunkwan Tam
XXX, 2022
120 x 120 x 0.5cm
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