Kai Sim- BA (Hons) Fine Art
The work focuses on ideas of the primal and enlightened, especially within the confines of an urban cityscape. Painting images based on hybrid forms, I want to achieve unique interpretations from the forms for the viewer. The communication from the viewers' individual experiences are key to my practice. Urban fear and paranoia, present in everyone who lives in a city. Existing in a space where we are constantly moving or getting ready to move. I want to get the viewer to never feel settled. The uncanny and inviting as well as the feeling of being preyed on. Different senses of security. Ideas of sex, violence and fascism at the most chaotic. And ownership, beauty and coincidence at its most ordered. Things are simultaneously true and I attempt to achieve that through a mixture of unidentifiable forms and harsh contrasts. Also expanding the work from the frame changes the immediate relationships we have with work. Things become visceral and intrusive through scale and texture, as it falls out of the wall and opens up the space. I want to capture intensity through a communal experience. Relating it to their personal identity as an urbanite is important, but a key element is attempting not to alienate anyone. To achieve a genuine emotional response is my goal.
