| Representation in the meaning of a metaphor for a forest as endoscopy / links between locations
As an endoscope maps the interior of our body, Cam’s work maps the outside world looking for what has been lost from within. Dense with detail, these landscapes show corridors, passageways, channels and open spaces which act as metaphors for the labyrinth-like terrain of the mind.
Like a lost thought waiting to be found, the artist has placed himself within the folds of the image, tucked behind a pillar in a Saigon tower block, stretched over chairs in an empty auditorium or semi submerged at the bottom of disused water facility.
Cam plays with the notion of finding yourself when and where you least expect it – a kitsch neon ice world in a Saigon amusement park or in the simple symmetry of a Venetian courtyard? By choosing these strange and incongruous locations the artist seems to be asking: if our thoughts were landscapes what would they look like? |