PARADIGM

Fabian Aerts, aka Southarena, is a multidisciplinary artist from Belgium who creates intricately designed surreal visual environments. Aerts’ PARADIGM series is based on 12 uniquely elaborate fantasy worlds. A tribute to the wonders of nature, the forms and their interactions inside these environments push the limits of physical and natural laws. The artist’s imaginative worlds surprise and challenge us providing a new framework through which to understand our own reality. 

PARADIGM is a series based on 12 unique imaginary worlds. Both strange and mysterious, and far from any civilization, these worlds are regulated by physical and natural laws which are beyond all understanding. Sometimes hostile, sometimes soothing, these worlds surprise us with their wild nature, their abstract and organic essence and take us on a journey to the other side of the mirror.

PARADIGM N7

_ENXERGA

Strength in the Crystallisation

Quarter Veteran

𝑺𝒖𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒊𝒏𝒆𝒅 𝒃𝒆𝒈𝒖𝒊𝒍𝒆𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕

Fuckiffilai Onethouzandranon and the unagi

Sylphs sisters

ammonite swamp³

Balanced Turmoil Ceremony

Sorcerer

“This is not the earth, where things are weighed down. This is the air, where porn physics reign. A furnace where hundreds of thousands of dollars burn to make real life feel like someone’s aesthetic blog. They must live in this hyper-real atmosphere like alien birds."

Psycho Nymph Exile by Porpentine Heartscape

Parasomnia are undesirable behaviors and experiences that occur during partial arousal from sleep. These disturbing phenomena, including night terrors and sleepwalking, occur during those undefined transitional periods when we are caught between dreams and reality. 

The artworks in this exhibition provoke a similarly disconcerting liminal state. Criss-crossing timelines and warping dimensions, the artists use the flexible parameters of digital space to develop their own eerie universes. Bending the laws of physics and the expectations of biology, they create these uncanny new worlds in exquisite detail. Their dystopian scenes resemble nowhere but remind us of everywhere. Through creating this terrifying aesthetics of anxiety, they provide a surprising and unwelcome contemporary critique. Hauntingly beautiful and intoxicating, the nightmarish visions attract our attention like moths to a flame. As with parasomnia, we are held helplessly captive to these perturbing dreams. 


Parasomnia

PARADIGM N3

PARADIGM N1

PARADIGM N4

PARADIGM N7

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