"Futurity is always a constitution of reading time and its contingencies.From where I sit, time is like a reverb, with sound and echo growing alongside one another. Despite the chronological disjunctures, past-present—or the then-here-now—kind of move together at any moment, shifting into different social venues.
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Often, several motifs or patterns are present at the same time. How one can read them is to see them as markers, or even entrances, into understanding the technologies used in creating these motifs or patterns.” – Fyerool Darma

Fyerool Darma samples extensively from accessible resources including literature, popular culture, archives of web 2.0, music, and Southeast Asian heritage to create the vernacular unique to his material experimentations. In the process, he raises questions about authorship, knowledge production, labour and the limitations of artmaking. These two works are part of his ongoing Screenshot series, which he had started in 2022 under the project land$cape$ (2022 - ongoing), to synthetically “polymerise” his practice by making its processes collaborative to some respect and openly recognising it as such (as one would note in the titles).

Each painting can be seen as an “output”, as the artist phrases, as an inventory of offsets salvaged from vinyl printers interspersed with fragments of our digital and physical surroundings, and remnants so to speak, of collective manual labour. In his constant rescaling and de-scaling of these various motifs and patterns, re-mixing and skewing them, Darma shifts these identifiers away from their initial function. Rather, they configure new surfaces, mediating alternative ways of perceiving one’s lives, the city, the territory and even history itself. They employ the notion of caches—our digital waste, making tangible the ways in which we are obfuscating ourselves virtually, and unknowingly. A could-be testimony of our journey towards extinction. Often titled in leets, Darma’s Screenshot series lends itself to a modality of languages beyond painting to interpretations, adaptions, and perhaps misreadings too, for our present times.