Rumbo Mercy – NEWWORK

^{Rumbo Mercy (b. 2002) is a mixed media artist who employs surrealism and retrofuturistic imagery to discuss cultural identity and displacement. She navigates through stories of displacement and disorientation embedded in migration and citizenship, time and transportation.}

^{Through worldbuilding, escapism and narratives of a strange yet familiar fictional place, it reflects the phenomenon of “cross-cultural kids” – people with multiple cultural identities who struggle to integrate into any group due to shifting backgrounds and locations.}

^{She explores retro-futurism, archival recordings, liminality and surrealism using imagery and multimedia disciplines to combine the familiar with the unfamiliar, creating a dreamlike realm of reflection and introspection.}

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PASSENGER

Our journey in the train is marked by its rhythm – the tremble of the tracks, intervals of light and the rows of seats. Watching the lights of the neighbourhoods passing by, enveloped in the white noise of the train slicing through the air.

PASSENGER is the fourth iteration of the Into the Insula series, a speculative fiction of the protagonist, Space Kid, traversing through the universe.

This work is an exploration of the physical experience when in transit. Here, Space Kid travels via the Twilight Train en route to The Insula. Encapsulated within an endless trip, time slips by between the rumble of the rails

Transmutation blankets us into a non-place where we are seated amongst no one other than ourselves.

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