Hjalmar Tjan is a man.

His work explores the relationship between new class identities, unwanted gifts and counter-terrorism.

Drawing on influences as diverse as Travolta, C-Murder and Dr. Dixit Onyabamhül, new combinations are generated from both explicit and implicit textures.

Since he was a teenager, Tjan has been fascinated by the traditional understanding of relationships. What starts out as triumph soon becomes finessed into a dialectic of temptation, leaving only a sense of decadence and the possibility of a new reality.

As shifting derivatives become reconfigured through diligent and personal practice, the audience is left with a tribute to the outposts of our existence.

"Astounding." - Prof. Heywood Djablömi

Semi-Finalist, Sperm Olympics - Spring 1976