“il Fait beau” is the process of cutting the sky and bringing it indoors, with various buildings and nature that influenced the course of human history that creates the shape of cuttings, the series also talk about the human relation in between the sky (above) and land (below), and the angle of frog eye is a disillusionment of looking to ideal dream, when human eye exposure blinded by the bright backlight of the sky that create shadowed objects and hardly perceive what is happen in their social eye level viewing of reality. The work mainly use video, black light and paper as medium. The process of cutting is represented by cutting paper which is then illuminated by black light to create a strong contrast. This blue color is also inspired by the shape of a digital screen in no signal, and its use in VFX (Blue Screen).
Il Fait Bleu (Bandung Series). paper, fluorescent Black light (2015) Displayed at Art Moments, Jogja National Museum
Il Fait Bleu. paper, fluorescent Black light (2014) Displayed at Lumiere, Centre Intermondes & Espace Art Contemporarin. La Rochelle.
Il Fait Bleu. Video projection on ceiling (2014) Displayed at Lumiere, Centre Intermondes & Espace Art Contemporarin. La Rochelle.
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LEFT: Il Fait Bleu displayed in “Can Anybody See My Screen?” at Singapore Art Museum (2022).
RIGHT: Il Fait Bleu displayed in “Strange Things” at Twenty Twenty at Cavan Road, Singapore (2020)
Di Bawah Langit yang Sama (Under the Same Sky). dual channel video Projection. displayed at Mes56 (2015)