Selfie Series Made Kaek, 2024 Acrylic mixed-media on canvas 50 pieces of 30cm x 40cm
Selfie Series, an installation of 50 individual creature portraits by Made Kaek. Exhibited in Culmination Visual Art Exhibition at Santrian Art Gallery May-June 2024.
Selfie Series
The Creatures of Made Kaek emerge from the diaphanous layer of the subconscious. Bridging spiritual and material, perceptions, illusions, myth and reality. The transformation of Made Kaek’s creatures has taken a turn toward something interesting. Closer than ever to claiming its human identity, never more so than in the Selfie Series. In the past Made Kaek’s renowned Creatures have only played at being human, suggestive and uncommitted. Wearing a tie, or adorning shoes with their hybrid forms. Here, undisputed, with a singular statement Selfie, they claim the human stage. And why? perhaps they need self-affirmation toward existence the same way humans do. Without a selfie, they may not exist. The essential record of one’s experience today, as is the phenomenon of today’s digital and virtual times, the most prolific form of journaling, the ‘Selfie’. Even Kaek’s Creatures cannot resist this validation of existence.