Drull, the very talented Chillwave duo from Philadelphia, have come out with a video for their latest single ‘Crimson’. It is a superbly shot video, focussing on the details that go unnoticed in every nano second. Watch it yourself, to draw your own conclusions:
I had the privilege to listen to their earlier work and was particularly impressed by their album ‘Hear No Evil’. It creates certain emotions or experiences in some part of your cognitive/neurological system and then like a domino effect, it envelops your system as a whole. Every track is an experience, and the sounds play on each other and with other in words I cannot describe. It just tends to make you fade out into oblivion till it lasts. Have a listen to some sample masterpieces yourself:
Karan Khurana
Karan Khurana ( Born in 1982, Mumbai, India) makes photos and mixed media artworks. By using popular themes such as pointlessness, old monuments and nightlife, Khurana creates intense personal moments by means of rules and omissions, acceptance and refusal, luring the viewer round and round in circles.
His photos don’t reference recognisable form. The results are deconstructed to the extent that meaning is shifted and possible interpretation becomes multifaceted. By applying abstraction, he touches various overlapping themes and strategies. Several reoccurring subject matter can be recognised, such as the relation with popular culture and media, working with repetition, provocation and the investigation of the process of expectations.
His works are saturated with obviousness, mental inertia, clichés and bad jokes. They question the coerciveness that is derived from the more profound meaning and the superficial aesthetic appearance of an image. By parodying mass media by exaggerating certain formal aspects inherent to our contemporary society, he makes works that can be seen as self-portraits. Sometimes they appear idiosyncratic and quirky, at other times, they seem typical by-products of consumer-oriented superabundance and marketing.
His works often refer to pop and mass culture. Using written and drawn symbols, a world where light-heartedness rules and where rules are undermined is created.
Karan Khurana currently lives and works in Berlin, Germany!
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