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VCA Art 2024

Oskar Backent

My work attempts to categorise and make sense of personal histories, pop culture and its influences in aesthetically uncanny forms. Through pirating pre-existing modes of cultural production: I seek to confront the possibilities of being shaped by the content I am pirating and gleaning from. Broken computer monitors and 2000s digital photo screens are utilised to contrast drypoint printmaking forms; creating a tension between the traditional and the technologically obsolete. Engaging with forms of connection and disconnection, looping and building, an immersive display of developing influences are put on full display. “Radio Silence” can be seen as an accumulation of my interest in technological obsolescence and the rise of Retromania: a cultural obsession with nostalgia.

Oskar Backent, Installation View. Image Courtesy of University of Melbourne.

Oskar Backent, Running Away with Me, Still from Video Work, 1:15, 2024

Oska Backent, Haunt Me, Video, 1:22, 2024

Oskar Backent, Post-Paik, Video, 1:14, 2024

Oskar Backent, Scan Test, Found objects scanned with an EPSON Printer, 2023

Bachelor of Fine Arts (Drawing & Printmaking)
Victorian College of the Arts
Faculty of Fine Arts and Music
University of Melbourne
PRV12150 / CRICOS: 00116K