Reuse
By employing different discarded materials, this series asks society: “What is value?”
This series converts trash that is economically worthless into artwork. It pushes the boundaries of painting to create a unique visual impression that aims to change the perception of the audience. In society, everything has a price, but it often fluctuates. It does not necessarily reflect society’s needs and demands, nor does it reflect measurable functionality.
Today, even art has become a commodity — an investment in future gains with the expectation of an increase in price. However, nobody can define what art is truly valuable as nobody can define the true value of art.
What is our consciousness? How has it been made? Can we be aware of everything in our minds?
What we are aware of is just a little part of ourselves. We create ourselves without realizing what we create ourselves.
What is our consciousness? How has it been made? Can we be aware of everything in our minds?
What we are aware of is just a little part of ourselves. We create ourselves without realizing what we create ourselves.
This artwork is about the impacts we have made on the earth by continually producing and consuming products to sustain our materialistic lifestyle.
The boxes represent products in our society and the canvas represents the earth. For this, I’ve used only plastic and carton trash.
This artwork is a result of painting the boxes on top of the canvas, as we generate so much impact on the environment through producing materials without thinking much of its consequence.
This artwork criticizes the tendency of the global society that treats art as a merchandisable product without knowing what is the value of the art. First of all, this artwork is made of plastic trashes which have economically no value. This throws the question “what is the economic value of artwork”? This chant of plastic trashes has economic value because it’s painted? Second of all, in this artwork, objects are placed as if they have some meaning that they are randomly placed as a representation of the conceited value of art that spectators tend to act like they know something about art.