DEATHCONSCIOUSNESS




Music has become the engine for me to create work. I seek to resolve myself into the dark, mysterious and dreamy sound and lyrics alongside taking photographs. I feel mesmerized, and it opens a door to experience a special feeling that I can’t find in daily life. Music is my imagination, and it allows me to enter a state of mind that twists the way I perceive myself and the world around me. My photography becomes the output of this personal experience and exploration.

This project is a visualization of “Deathconsciousness” by “Have A Nice Life”. An album that can be described as a wall of sound, known as Shoegaze. This album is an exploration of life, knowing it won’t last forever, conveying senses of dreamy wonder, anxious despair and anger, becoming more intense as it progresses. Those senses are conveyed through big images of bodies, and abstract photographs, intuitively made using long shutter speeds and moving light. Sometimes both are combined to convey the abstract and layered nature of the selected music, which is provided at the installation. This immersive experience invites music lovers, deaf people and dreamers to step into my world and experience the visuals of my imagination, to see what music looks like, to be mesmerized.

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2024
Graduation work at Royal Academy of Art
Spatial installation with sound
3 versions of fold-out posters in edition of 50 each




        



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