Yebu-Tonu, 2019
Featured In A STRANGE WORLDStagnant
The portrait depicts both the agonizing and hypnotic experience of idle stagnancy through the subject’s own body. The body is fused toward its bottom half, whereas the remaining form of its upper half is deformed, fragmented, and impaled by material resembling its own body. Stagnancy behaves as that which cuts the body up into pieces, as well as holds it together in its fragments. It sacrifices the integrity of the subject’s own body-image in exchange for “pieces” of itself to obstruct all unified movement of the body. The subject with its eyes closed has resigned itself to a fractured experience.
The work was entirely created in 3D with the collaborative support of Uğur Engin Deniz.
Yebu-Tonu (yebutonu) is a 3D artist from Toronto, Canada currently living in Berlin. Originally starting his career-path in neuroscience, he researched rodent psychopharmacology and human brain mapping. After withdrawing from graduate school, his academic experiences became the pulsion toward new horizons, asking questions that cut across technical art and the subject.Self-taught with only a professional background in the sciences, Yebu-Tonu began experimenting with a variety of digital art methods until he found his calling in 3D. Inspired by certain themes in psychoanalysis, Yebu-Tonu became interested in the "conversation" between figures compositionally to "tell" a story or drama. Today, his work experimentally interrogates with volatile bodies, fantasy, unconscious theatre, and points of impossibilities from a subjective position.
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