Aliens Invading the Beach (2024)
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Dates2024 - 2024
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Author
- Topics Contemporary Issues, Documentary, Fine Art, Landscape, Nature & Environment, Social Issues, Street Photography, Travel
- Location Vũng Tàu, Vietnam
Emulating the styles of Mark Rothko and Cian Duggan, the work represents the paradoxical conception of the beach as both the haven and the place to be saved from exploitation and pollution.
Aliens Invading the Beach is a series of photographic collages that attempts to represent the tension in the paradoxical conception of the beach as simultaneously the haven: space for relaxation, retreat, meditation, revelation; and the space for work, the space to be salvaged from exploitation and pollution. To evoke meaning, Aliens Invading the Beach draws from important visual convention legacies in Mark Rothko’s and Cian Duggan’s painting styles. The resulting absurd, abstract forms of the series also instigate questions regarding the responsibility and capacity to advocate for social change pertinent to socially engaged artworks as it renders both contradictory points arbitrary.
