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Language, writing and music play an important role in Sun's work. The current images pass
through segments of a street sign painted in orange neon letters: It is a reassuring call to the
people of Hawaii to remain calm on the occasion of a panic-inducing nuclear false alarm -
"There is no threat" - there is no danger. "The world is in its existence as threatened as
never before. Great care is needed to survive real and metaphorical journeys.
The works were inspired by Nick Cave: “Push the Sky Away”,
Jarvis Cocker, “Drive Safely, Darling”, Chilly Gonzales, Jarvis Cocker: “Room 29
Silvia Sun's "Drive safely, Darling" series takes us on an imaginary journey
through an elusive present, inspired by devastating storms and catastrophes.
As once for Hamlet, time seems to have gotten out of hand. Fragility and
uncertainty about the future of the individual as well as the global one are
growing.
Silvia Sun's works are a commentary on the current state of the world. The
images, produced in contrasting tones and different techniques, depict skies,
horizons, crumbling facades of civilization, threatened, devastated paradises
with bent, curved palms that defy tropical storms, with stray animals, seekers,
and survivors - a current variant of Milton's “Paradise lost ".
Drive safely, Darling
