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Danish Quapoor, DELPHIC series, 2022, Looped hand-drawn and digitally-coloured GIF, dimensions variable; vocal soundscape by Erin Fitzsimon of Inigo.
The DELPHIC series developed as an extension of (and in response to) Danish Quapoor’s recent body of illustrative painting works. While the artist’s paintings reflect on his coming out to his family as bisexual and his father passing away (among other concepts), the DELPHIC works take these stimuli and heighten the ambiguity and abstraction in visual terms. The organic, biomorphic forms are purposefully ambiguous, obfuscating personal details (and inviting multiple interpretations) while simultaneously imbuing hidden personal narratives into the iconography and movements. The motion is intended to be fluid and freeform yet with underlying tension – reflecting the subject matter. The works are hand-drawn and digitally-coloured GIF animations, looped to create infinite catch-22s or ouroboroses (serpents that eat their own tails) which Quapoor has previously explored in static imagery.
This work was commissioned by Outer Space (Brisbane) for the online exhibition, SUPERCUT Project 4. SUPERCUT was supported by the Restart Investment to Sustain and Expand (RISE) Fund – an Australian Government Initiative and was presented in partnership with Artspace Mackay and Northsite Contemporary Arts, Cairns.
The DELPHIC series developed as an extension of (and in response to) Danish Quapoor’s recent body of illustrative painting works. While the artist’s paintings reflect on his coming out to his family as bisexual and his father passing away (among other concepts), the DELPHIC works take these stimuli and heighten the ambiguity and abstraction in visual terms. The organic, biomorphic forms are purposefully ambiguous, obfuscating personal details (and inviting multiple interpretations) while simultaneously imbuing hidden personal narratives into the iconography and movements. The motion is intended to be fluid and freeform yet with underlying tension – reflecting the subject matter. The works are hand-drawn and digitally-coloured GIF animations, looped to create infinite catch-22s or ouroboroses (serpents that eat their own tails) which Quapoor has previously explored in static imagery.
This work was commissioned by Outer Space (Brisbane) for the online exhibition, SUPERCUT Project 4. SUPERCUT was supported by the Restart Investment to Sustain and Expand (RISE) Fund – an Australian Government Initiative and was presented in partnership with Artspace Mackay and Northsite Contemporary Arts, Cairns.