Description
‘Fluttering Fables’ by kEda Gomes
Artist: kEda Gomes
Title: ‘Fluttering Fables’
Medium: Mixed media on canvas
Dimensions: 27.6″ x 27.6″ x 1.4″
Framing: Unframed
Year of Creation: 2023
About the Artwork:
Stories, oral history can feel like a flock of birds – all wings and feathers. A flurry – overwhelming, suffocating, intoxicating and fleeting.
Good stories, whether they be fictional or a historical encounter, open the mind to questions as well as paths to more stories. Recast, revised, rewritten by forever new authors to suit their own world view. Like the children’s game, stories are broken down and mutated as they travel through the telephone lines of time.
About the Artist:
(Artist Bio)
kEda is inspired by contemporary/lowbrow and pop surrealist movement, which finally “allowed” for the exploration and indulgence in other forms of artistic expression.
Apart from exploration in concepts of identity and gaining a sense of permission to associate with various cultures (of one’s birthplace), kEda is also fascinated (more like obsessed) with myths and fairy tales. They are a constant source of inspiration and reference helping to explain complex (modern) moral and social topics. Along with various other childhood elements such as toys and games, finding that the innocence creates both a palatable and a potent dichotomy when handling everyday topics in politics, identity, and society.