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VCA Art 2025

Clement Francis Fuentes

I don’t remember what happened, not with any sort of clarity; it’s the way the air shifts around the body as it moves through space, a fraction of a motion reduced to half-formed shapes. A suggestion of a memory, trace residue of the intersection of person-place-time.

I act on the compulsion time after time. Can it never be satiated? Never as good as the real thing. I am not a person I am a vessel for an experience – it is my duty to record, repeat, relive. A series of mimicry and reflection, blurred images held still for a fraction of a second. Perhaps someday I’ll be satisfied.

Thoroughfare (A to B), Solvent transfer animation, 1 minute 15 seconds, 2025

Thoroughfare (A to B), Solvent transfer animation, still frame 284 of 374, 2025

Eclipsing, Solvent Transfer animation, 2 minutes 11 seconds, Installed for critique, 2025

Eclipsing, Solvent Transfer animation, 2 minutes 22 seconds, Installed for critique, 2025

Clement Francis Fuentes, Installation view, 2025. Image courtesy of the University of Melbourne. Photography by Astrid Mulder.

Honours
Victorian College of the Arts
Faculty of Fine Arts and Music
University of Melbourne
PRV12150 / CRICOS: 00116K