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  • Tromarama, Intercourse, 2015, two-channel HD video, color, sound, 4 minutes 10 seconds.

    Tromarama, Intercourse, 2015, two-channel HD video, color, sound, 4 minutes 10 seconds.

    Tromorama

    Kiang Malingue 馬凌畫廊 | Hong Kong

    The paradox of perception is that what we see is never what we see. In “Panoramix,” the Indonesian collective Tromarama took on this conundrum through a collection of works brought together as a single installation, though each work is individually titled. The assemblage opened with a video, also titled Panoramix (all works 2015), projected on a hanging screen, showing a lush close-up of tropical leaves. The scene remains still until it slowly begins to flutter like a hanging cloth responding to gusts of wind, flapping backward to reveal a dark space behind it. The image gives way only to reveal

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