Yin Yung Sabrina Pun
The Assembly of Celestial, Horizontal and Fathom Undertakers
Created By
Yin Yung Sabrina Pun
The Assembly of Celestial, Horizontal and Fathom Undertakers
Etching Print
Curator
Herman Rahman
This steel etching invokes the visual language of Renaissance and Baroque frescoes, staging a temporal dissonance between historical cosmologies and contemporary desires to render the unknown visible. It constructs a speculative mythology of formless deities, figures that embody essential and often opposing forces such as chaos and harmony, articulated through exaggerated, ceremonial drapery. These entities do not resolve contradiction but sustain it, existing in dynamic equilibrium where each extreme depends on the other. The work positions form as a negotiation between visibility and abstraction, suggesting that what remains unseen continues to structure existence. As a speculative cosmology, it gestures toward an ethics of balance across species, systems, and scales, proposing a world shaped as much by the invisible and the mythic as by human agency.
About
this Artwork
This steel etching print resembles styles of Renaissance and Baroque frescoes which creates a paradox and an uncanniness of the integration of the unknown in modern eyes and our desire to uncover all. Inspired by personifying the invisible and imagining the unknown and unseeable, I explored such methods of fictioning, creating gods and mythology based on aspects that beings live on, from the ends of the universes to the fathoms of the planets' very cores. The 'formless' deities all represent different traits essential for survival and existence. I shaped them using exaggerated, regal fabric and fashion, with the 'forms' counteracting one another yet also working together to create (for example, peace and chaos) simultaneously, ultimately, a balance that shroud dimensions and keeping everything in rightful order. For each spectrum, both extreme ends cease to function or serve a purpose without the other, thus asserting the quality of paradox and juxtaposing concepts that matter to existence. Hinting at the urgent need to re-establish balance between living beings and species, races and cultures, championing, acceptance, respect and compassion towards one another, this represents a prophetic document for the modern people, for us to look into the constitution that shapes the past, present and future, not just manufacture by humans, but also from other species of flora and fauna, the outer dimensions and the mythological. With year of completion and signature
Created By
Yin Yung Sabrina Pun
About
this Artwork
CHARACTERISTICS
- SIZE
48 x 18 cm | 19 x 7 in
- Year
2024
