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As the series unfolds, Wens mitigates our gaze by enwrapping himself in red tape. We are met with his unabashed gaze, assured and steadied by his own performance in front of the camera. In Cinta Mati (Crazy Love) #1 Wens frames himself naked from the waist up. For as much as WensвЂ™ work occupies itself with the ongoing tension between secular and spiritual concerns as manifest in global art history and contemporary Indonesian politics, this work alludes to the complex relationships that exist between religious taboo and sexual desire. The use of red tape, while providing the key to the photograph's formal and philosophical borrowings from Malevich creates a striking contrast against the black background and WensвЂ™ own flesh.

My alignment with Malevich is a critique of the idea of spirituality and manвЂ™s superiority вЂ“ of the male painter as the hand of God.вЂ™ 1. Speaking about his photographs, Wens observes, вЂI have always been interested in what people believe I question religious belief in the context of joking and role-play. 1946) and her Indonesian student Melati Suryodarmo (b.1969). Equally, WensвЂ™ work pays homage to the type of contemporary performance practices in which the artistвЂ™s body is foregrounded through acts of endurance and audience participation, including the works of Marina AbramoviД‡ (b. This series of 6 photographic self-portraits invoke the memory of early 20th century Russian avant-garde artist, Kazimir Malevich (1879-1939) whose painted compositions of geometric forms, frequently realised in white, red and black, explored a spiritual relationship to the world unencumbered by devotional imagery. His background in film informs his art practice that ranges from photography and video to performance. Val Wens is an Indonesian-born graduate of Fine Arts at Art and Design UNSW and currently resides in Sydney.

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