Installation• Concept Development •Motion Design
The Allergy of the Cave” is an experimentation in sculptural painting and animation. During this period of my artistic journey, I was exploring and questioned the construction and function of Western painting.
One of the questions I ask myself is: what are the primary functions of painting? I see it as the creation of an illusion of life through mark-making, achieved by exploring the interplay of light and shadow. This idea led me to reflect on Plato’s Allegory of the Cave—a story where prisoners are chained inside a cave, facing a wall, only able to see shadows cast by objects behind them. They believe these two-dimensional shadows to be reality.
To illustrate the concept of Plato’s Allegory of the Cave in relation to painting, I cut through the canvas to create a modular structure that can be assembled three-dimensionally. While maintaining the traditional perspective of viewing a painting, this approach also offers viewers the option to move behind the painting to observe the light and shadows cast by projections and the cutouts.
The process of making the stretcher bars
