Identities versus Globalisation Catalogue

Trading Blows

2003, Installation

Artist's biography

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The artist represents the entire notion of cause and resistance in a tongue in cheek manner at remonstrating against conformity.



Four upright electrical fans stand back-to-back trying to fend off a swarm of cut-out fighter planes. The fans blow the cut-out planes into disarray and the planes are surrounded seemingly with the intention completely blowing-up its targets. In this case, is the aggressor really he who is here to implement? Or is it he who is unwilling to conform?
Constructed out of metal, the planes knock each other over as each passing gust from the fan comes along, producing a sweet clinking sound resembling a wind chime, suggesting the hope of something beautiful emerging out of the ´fracas´.

In the face of sweeping trends and futile resistance, the pace of the world today moves at an alarming rate - at a speed that leaves everything trailing in the cloud of dust it leaves behind. The artist has chosen to represent the entire notion of cause and resistance in a tongue in cheek manner remonstrating against conformity. The resulting effect may not necessarily turn out the way one can expect and plan, but ideally concludes in an ending which can be mutually beneficial in more ways than one (the rhythm of clinking ‘chimes’) - the best of the two worlds of causes and effects.

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