Neon Parc is excited to present ‘Sins of the Cloud’, a solo exhibition by Kieren Seymour at Neon Parc Brunswick. For the artists’ third solo project with the gallery, Seymour presents a new series of oil paintings which evoke a nonsensical dreamlike world inhabited by mythical creatures and motifs.
Exploring the rapid rate at which Artificial Intelligence is growing, Seymour’s new paintings collectively lament the stark binary of dystopia and utopia which the fast-approaching tipping point of the next decade will inevitably offer. Seymour thinks about making this body of work “like writing science fiction or fantasy” where he imagines possible future scenarios in which there are no limits, no logic, no rules.
Seymour has always been interested in the co-existence between humans, animals, environments and their emotive states. In this series he paints characters such as an enormous skeleton bird discovering its hands and feet; a woman typing frantically on her computer; and a yellow and red sun with eyes and a mouth, all as if they are equal protagonists in their own allegory. We meet these characters in moments of flux, and we are encouraged to invent their narratives or backstories.
