Ponie Curtis
Embodying the sensation of a crush, my work delves into the texture of desire and the allure of fantasies that debilitate and consume the self. The use of 3D digital modelling, animation and photogrammetry techniques aims to establish an uncanny logic located in the familiar yet unattainable, one that dissolves the boundaries between reality and imagination. I explore this idea of impulsive infatuation via a recontextualisation of luxury brands, advertisement schemes and materialism as a whole, whereby dizzying abstractions of coded motifs mimic the obsessive yet disorientating passion we often feel for a distant someone or something.
Ponie Curtis, Crush Fever. Image Courtesy the University of Melbourne.
Ponie Curtis, Crush Fever. Image Courtesy the University of Melbourne.
Ponie Curtis, Crush Fever, 3D rendered animation, [05:27], 2023, still courtesy of the artist. Audio acknowledgements: It Ain’t Over Till It’s Over by Lenny Kravitz & Never Can Say Goodbye by Gloria Gaynor.
Ponie Curtis, Crush Fever, 3D rendered animation, [05:27], 2023, still courtesy of the artist. Audio acknowledgements: It Ain’t Over Till It’s Over by Lenny Kravitz & Never Can Say Goodbye by Gloria Gaynor.
Ponie Curtis, Crush Fever, 3D rendered animation, [05:27], 2023, still courtesy of the artist. Audio acknowledgements: It Ain’t Over Till It’s Over by Lenny Kravitz & Never Can Say Goodbye by Gloria Gaynor.
Ponie Curtis, Crush Fever, 3D rendered animation, [05:27], 2023, still courtesy of the artist. Audio acknowledgements: It Ain’t Over Till It’s Over by Lenny Kravitz & Never Can Say Goodbye by Gloria Gaynor.
Ponie Curtis, Crush Fever, 3D rendered animation, [05:27], 2023, still courtesy of the artist. Audio acknowledgements: It Ain’t Over Till It’s Over by Lenny Kravitz & Never Can Say Goodbye by Gloria Gaynor.
Ponie Curtis, Crush Fever, 3D rendered animation, [05:27], 2023, still courtesy of the artist. Audio acknowledgements: It Ain’t Over Till It’s Over by Lenny Kravitz & Never Can Say Goodbye by Gloria Gaynor.
Faculty of Fine Arts and Music
University of Melbourne