Description

A landscape of bodily remnants. An ant crawling by. Tongue, bones, skin, finger, traces of a dismembered corpse, some unidentified viscera. A self-run medical scanner. Distorted clocks syncing out of tune.

Taking ‘body’ as a point of departure, White Noise fictionalizes a dystopian setting where the human body appears scattered, its parts eerily dismembered, its desires and beliefs examined by the hands of a machine. Within this imagined route of the ant, the gore and glory of a distant past, once dominated by humans, slowly reveals itself.

As a series of re-configurations of existing artworks from within and outside of NAF’s Collection, White Noise also proposes an interpretation of the Foundation’s 2023 theme Community and Compassion through a post-pandemic and post-human lens.

Source: Nguyen Art Foundation.