Modern and Contemporary Southeast Asian Paintings

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Lot 267
  • 267

Tromarama

Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 HKD
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Description

  • Tromarama
  • Wattt?!
  • Inscribed with a title on the electricity box; a certificate of authenticity dated 14 Jan 2011 is affixed to the interior of the case.
  • DVD disc, electricity box, lamps
  • Electricity box: 35 by 25 by 12 cm; 13 3/4 by 9 3/4 by 4 3/4 in.
  • Executed in 2010, this work is number 4 from an edition of 5 plus 3 artist's proofs.
Stop motion animation with various lamps

Provenance

Acquired directly from the artist. 
This work is accompanied with a certificate of authenticity issued by the artist.

Exhibited

Yogyakarta, Jogja Contemporary, Kidult: Tromarama's Solo Exhibition, Jan 6 - Jan 25, 2011

Condition

The work is in good condition overall. The electronic parts are in working order and there are no visible scratches on the DVD disc. The work is accompanied with an electricity box packaging.
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Catalogue Note

"Animation or stop motion is one of the techniques that allow us to do our own thing without depending too much on the computer… About 80% of our video works are done outside the computer. We just depend on what our own hands can do and our imagination with all the material there in front of us.

Back then technology had a small role in our daily life. Everything is done manually either its school assignment or student's own project. The Do It Yourself (D.I.Y) spirit feels so strong among the students due to lack of facility. Everybody just start with anything that is available around them.

In our work called Wattt?!, we worked with various lamps and used our own house as a setting for the video. At the end, this DIY approach makes us believe what matters is our own imagination and the rest will follow… nowadays technology has an important role in our daily life, we should keep our intimate interaction in real life with the others… [it is] important to feel, to touch, to look, to share within intimacy..."
- The Artist's Statement, 2012