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Daandrey Steyn

The desire for the sublime in the unfolding globalized world.

Allegory - Innocence Between Virtues and Vices

Allegory
Holofernus Contemplating Suicide

His morphing videos reveals an inherent awkwardness, a macabre fascination that echoes our own vulnerabilities

Holofernus Contemplating Suicide

The dichotomy between the self and the other is investigated on a more personal level where the self and the other are separate incarnations of a single person.

Sabbath of the Great Other

Sabbath of the Great Other

Through the kaleidoscopic ‘morph-motions’ he creates fascinatingly macabre and enthrallingly grotesque deconstructions of the instants between experiences. 

The Ecstasy of Mare

The Ecstasy of Mare

The Ecstasy of Mare
The Lamentation of Andromedus

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

The Lamentation of Andromedus

Ni Mas, Ni Menos

He attempts to increase the dynamic between audience and author by objectifying emotions and investigating the duality that develops through different interpretations

Ni Mas, Ni Menos

The Méduse Scuttling on the River Styx

Again and again, the artist leaves us orphaned with a mix of conflicting feelings and thoughts

The Méduse Scuttling on the River Styx

-esthesia series

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

-esthesia series

Prints

Ultimately he strives to achieve cohesion of technique and concept where there is a mutual symbiotic progression

 

Prints

About the Artist
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Art is defined by that which makes it undefinable. 

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