An animated neon snake inspired by an inaccurate and mislabeled 18th-century French naturalist illustration.
Tag: tropical
Welcome to the Taro Dome
“In this towering installation, Suparak constructs a sprawling set shaped by centuries of imperial fantasy… Snakes coil around prey; a throng of brightly feathered birds erupts into flight above, while fanciful fruits swell into bloated cornucopias.”
Tropical Cats
“A sly, sun-soaked detour into cat video territory, refracted through postcolonial critique and pop collage. This winking essay film uses the feline internet genre to unpack tropical aesthetics, exoticism, and identity politics, purring with layered audio, meme logic, and cultural dissection. As playful as it is pointed.”—Chicago Underground Film Festival
Tropical Fruit in European Still Lifes
What may be broadly viewed as benign paintings from dusty art history books point to still-reverberating and repeating histories of colonialism, trade, and sources of European and American wealth through extraction.
Carnegie Museum of Art film series
Suparak is the guest curator for the 2024 Film Series, crafting programs around key ideas present in both the museum collection and her own practice, including science fiction and fantasy, architecture, sports, media criticism, diaspora and inheritance.
ALOHA, BOYS
An installation that collages white men outfitted in Hawaiian shirts while vacationing in future foreign lands.
TROPICOLLAGE
Short looping video that collages footage from 30 years of futuristic sci-fi movies and television shows that employ a fetishized tropics trope.
Astria Suparak 