Agony to Ecstasy
Agony to Ecstasy
Florian takes inspiration from Sigmund Freud and Nicholas Royle’s thoughts on the Uncanny, which they describe as a specific type of anxiety that arises when people are confronted by objects or entities that are familiar yet foreign. Influenced by these ideas, Florian seeks to combine the ordinary with the unusual to reflect his own personal anxieties through his work and immerse viewers into the world of an anxious person, showing them the dangers he sees within the everyday.
The artist’s paintings depict strange, impaled figures alongside serene landscapes to deliver unsettling and ambiguous narratives. Working with oil paint, Florian applies multiple thin layers, making gestural and fluid brush strokes that maintain the painterly quality of his painting – he creates a dreamlike, constructed impression of the world. As well as that, Florian accompanies his paintings with audio, consisting of soothing music and sounds of nature interspersed with incongruous slashing sounds that reflect the atmosphere of his paintings. The artist creates an immersive, uncanny experience for the viewer as the combination of audio and painting creates an eerie doubling effect, in which they are pulled into the world constructed within the paintings and feel as if they are these impaled figures and therefore evoking uncanny feelings within them.
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