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Artwork details
- Medium : Acrylic on Wood
- Other details : Unmounted artwork. Mounting and/or framing available on request.
- Dimensions : 11.3x18.3in
About this artwork
Here, Double Freedom tackles both the loss of individual freedoms in a world controlled by Big Data, of which the People's Republic of China is the undisputed leader through its social control by points, and the danger that this poses on the Taiwanese people and their collective freedom to determine their own destiny. The characters Zi You, Freedom, are here doubled, mixed or confused, returned, ..., in short, undermined. The notion of freedom is…
losing all its symbolic force and is being diluted in an ocean of hyper-security. Determinism, on which I have been working for several years, is a natural determinism, which operates in the infinity of possibilities, in our inability to analyze all the information from our environment and therefore to make decisions in all conscience. It is not determinism by the fact of others, under their constraints, by their control.
Thomas Pourcelot Wonsungee
France
Credentials
- International Exposure
- Covered by the Press
- Works on commission
« Torn between passion and reason, conscious and unconscious choices, I propose the question of how our choices are formed as individuals and citizens. »
Thomas Pourcelot Wonsungee is a French painter who has lived in countless cities around the world, including Taiwan, Riyad, Seoul and Beijing - all of which inform his artistic and societal vision. Working within semi-automatism and abstract expressionism, he creates striking paintings that tackles ideas of psychoanalysis, philosophy and the stakes of human existence.