By questioning the concept of experience through his medium of choice; video art, South African artist Daandrey Steyn finds that the morphing which has become the hallmark of his work, reveals an inherent awkwardness, a macabre fascination that echoes our own vulnerabilities.
His works isolate the instants between moments of human experience, mostly representational thorough the movement and transformations of the human figure. By doing so, new enthrallingly grotesque sequences are created which reveal an inseparable relationship between experience and identity. His morphs never show the complete structure.
He creates with hauntingly recognizable elements, an unprecedented situation in which the viewer is confronted with the conditioning of his own perception and has to reconsider his biased position.
Again and again, the artist leaves us orphaned with a mix of conflicting feelings and thoughts. He attempts to increase the dynamic between audience and author by objectifying emotions and investigating the duality that develops through different interpretations.
His works are often classified as part of the new Romantic Movement because of the desire for the sublime in the unfolding globalized world where he uses historical artworks as points of departure in order to achieve new allegorical interpretations.
