Female | Media Artist Brandon Tay Creates Surreal Animations Adapted From His Dreams

Keng Yang Shuen, Female, October 19, 2020

"It’s hard to crystallise Tay’s animations into words. They tend to depict strange, abstract figures morphing from or into alien landscapes that would not be out of place in a Bjork production...

 

And it’s just as well that his latest works draw on imagery from his dreams (he’s kept a dream journal since 2016). The 39-year-old favours juxtaposition and collaging because he finds that our existing visual vocabulary might not convey what he wishes to express.

 

“I think of my work as excerpts from a world perhaps unfamiliar and bizarre, but hopefully with its own internal logic that makes it relatable,” he says. The unique compositions have made him a go-to collaborator among fellow artists – he’s one half of State Sensor, an experimental multidisciplinary practice that explores the boundaries between culture and technology."