Tony Tran, Ornafanum-Vacui (ART 2023)

This photographic series explores a speculative renewal and distortion of remixed mythological and spiritual iconography of deities rooted from varied pan-Asian and European histories and cultures. The series responds to the artist's existential yearning to seek a new spiritual/cultural aesthetic and iconography through navigating the landscape of cultural alienation, displacement and sentiments of secular pessimism. The methodology of the work involves digitally sculpting works that is then 3d-printed, primed, lit then photographed to create these digital photographic composites. The works experiments with depictions of abstracted and recursive figurative and organic forms, resulting in an intricate concoction of an altar-like display featuring fragmented chimeras of faceless humanoid deities seated upon a throne consisting of implosions of fractal contorted forms recollecting antiquated cultural imagery and artifacts that becomes reconfigured and re-imagined.

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