Angela Pan
BELOW 2000
Exotic spectacles. Worlds within worlds. New civilisations and relations are pieced and threaded together through intuitive collage designs in a mixed-media installation.
Lived images of women, anglerfish, industrial objects, and fetishwear have their impressions displaced through juxtaposition following the context of sexual parasitism. Sexual parasitism is an evolutionary trait of deep-sea anglerfish that translates to a re-imagination of the marginalised or female body through absorbing ‘other’ or masculine powers in symbiosis for mutual dependence and co-conditioning.
Each image is digitally printed on habotai, where layers of silk are unified and sewn together to metamorphose as cyborgian alien creatures that smoothly glide and dance within familiar aquarium waters.
From small as a human to towering heights, the creatures confront and seduce for an exchange of gazes as they too glance back at visitors within the urban yet natural landscape. What are the relative power dynamics when the marginalised are drawn out of the depths through fiction? The creatures and their associations send visitors into recursive thinking within and beyond their socio-cultural conditions.
