Turning from his usual colorfully strange canvas worlds, Bjorn explores methods to learn about painting. Fear Made Me Do This is consequential to his conviction that “art is a language” – a language perhaps that begins with a catharsis. Bjorn bravely admits that his installation is LOSTprojects is borne out of paranoia – a paranoia that magnifies the ambivalent place of Facebook. Approximately 3000 photographs of his Facebook fr…iends were printed and assigned to a mis-en-scene of death. All together, the installation becomes a parody collage of thumbnails from a networking structure that has “vulnerability” in its fine print. It is vandalization that makes us to examine again the thin line (or perhaps non-existent) line between public domain and private spaces.

As much as Fear Made Me Do This started as a projection to overcome a social liability, Bjorn’s exhibition speaks about his encounter with a system that requires whoever is in it to constantly treat it as a puzzle piece.

Fear Made Me Do This opens on Wednesday,4 May 2011 from 6pm to 9pm in LOSTprojects, 18A Major Dizon Street, Industrial Valley Marikina, Quezon City. Exhibition runs until 1 June 2011. LOSTprojects is open only by appointment after the opening night. Contact: +63917 8982680

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