Nastivicious

A man appears in the form of a black silhouette against a backdrop of continuously changing vivid colors. After bending to take a bow, he begins singing, dancing and moving to the beat of the song. Intermittently the silhouette fades or becomes two silhouettes to form a symmetry as if standing in front of a mirror; sometimes it also splits into many silhouettes layered on top of each other. This video project consists of four parts, featuring, respectively, the four songs Oh Donna, I Shot the Sheriff, Purple Rain, and Tira a mao da minh xuxa. The exaggerated wailing of the songs is interspersed with sudden exhortations in Portuguese, and as this repeated switching back and forth continues, the borders between familiar and unfamiliar and between pop culture and high culture become gradually blurred. (At the request of the artist, this video was screened in English and Portuguese without Korean subtitles.)

Together with the wallpaper, Ending Bad People…, the video iFind, iABUSe To SiMPLiFy... is hanging at the same height of the viewer while sitting in the arm chair. The video is made based on the images cut and spliced a series of globally familiar Google image searches, colliding the banalities of the universe, faith, tangibility and trust with the force of political will. The resulting collage reproduced as wallpaper, and the viewers are invited to listen to a voice-over narrative as well as soundtracks while seated, “The belief experience,” and “Don’t always believe what you hear.” The tightly controlled cynicism of the works’ language has a depth that startles, it makes the viewers unsure and becomes a conduit to a series of internal questions.