Luke Heng
Calamine lotion, 2025
Oil on Linen
48.5 x 36.5 cm
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Calamine lotion stages a double confrontation with the apparatus of capture. Depicting a camcorder with its primary lens and rotated LCD screen both oriented toward the viewer, the work denies...
Calamine lotion stages a double confrontation with the apparatus of capture. Depicting a camcorder with its primary lens and rotated LCD screen both oriented toward the viewer, the work denies the expected feedback loop of self-observation. Instead, the screen displays the entropic reality of houseflies mating. This jarring collision between high-tech surveillance and raw biological impulse forces a reflection on the mechanics of our own mediated gaze, where the "Snap" occurs in the gap between the recorded image and the base reality of nature.
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