Fyerool

Fyerool Darma
Screenshots 2023
Polymethyl metacrylate (Plexiglas Tiger), epoxy resin (NicPro), chameleon carbon fibre polyvinyl chloride and polyacrylate adhesive (Vvivid XPO) on anodized aluminium alloy, honeycomb retroreflective tape (Grip-On), non metalized reflective tape (Steve & Leif)
21 X 29 cm

Welcome to the Nusantaran space age, where ultra lightweight flexible polycarbonate compounds become the perfect medium for the natural fusion of modernist forms and Southeast Asian visual vocabulary, both concrete and abstracted. The materials of custom auto culture, industrial safety, manufacturing, and image-saturated mobile marketing – vinyl wraps, carbon fibre – are themselves reliant upon sophisticated and ultra-regularized geometry. These slick surfaces become pathways to troubling the pristine grids and cubes of contemporary art practice with an expansive and ongoing series.

Fyerool Darma mediates Southeast Asian rural and urban culture with our new-age cosmopolitanism, developing object and material experimentations based on an extensive visual vocabulary drawn from popular culture, literature, the archives, the Internet, and his own life. Building on his ongoing Screenshot series, he proposes an environment for exploring a type of supra-locality – the cultural currency of textiles from the pre-modern to hyper-real. Drawing equally upon illusion and allusion, Fyerool interlaces and embroiders found images and texts from digital and other archival sources into a series of objects that oscillate between the realms of the digitally foraged and manually produced.