Featuring Naomi Samara, Andre Yoga, Nugi Ketut, Nova Kusuma, Putu Surya Dharma Putra, SwoofOne, Dwymabim, Kuncir Satya Viku, and Wayan Yusa Dirgantara
5 October 2022 - 7 October 2022 at Museum Pasifika, Nusa Dua - Bali.
Curated by Cakravala
Text by Adella Bahar
Published by Issuu Catalogue Design by Brina Paska
With the rise of our local art scene over the past couple years, a new wave of young artists have emerged. Carrying distinct styles and exploring various themes surrounding Indonesian culture, each artist uses art to convey memo ries, ideas, or stories that help remind us of where we come from. By repre senting them through various mediums and narratives, exhibiting works exist as a time capsule that captures a moment in time and encapsulates the boundless possibilities of artistic practices.
Born and raised in Bali, Naomi is a Javanese descendant whose innate ability to transcribe emotions through art is geared by her strong sense of curiosity and the means to explore various mediums. Working across painting, drawing, poetry and jewe Born and raised in Bali, Naomi Samara is a Java nese descendant whose innate ability to transcribe emotions through art is geared by her strong sense of curiosity and the means to explore various mediums. Working across painting, drawing, poet ry and jewellery, the process of creating art or her is highly intuitive. Though she continues to explore different mediums, Naomi has always used her own body as a tool and starting point to translate in ternal dialogues. She is fascinated by the female body in all its beauty and poten tiality, drawing on themes of power and
control; heritage and identity; our state of being and transformation; intimately cap tured within female forms. As an artist, she seeks to become the final ‘courier’ who will continuously acquire tools and knowledge to convey ides and stories already existing within space and time. Naomi gravitates toward the approach of experiencing art as a multifaceted narra tive, demonstrated through her various mediums and modes of expression.
Her works have been showcased at Let’s Pretend Gallery, Melbourne, ICAD Indo nesian Contemporary Art and Design, Jakarta, and Copeland Gallery, London. llery, the process of creating art or her is highly intuitive though she continues to explore different mediums, Naomi has always used her own body as a tool and starting point to translate internal dia logues.
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Andre Yoga is a Bali-based painter and illustrator who gathers observations from his everyday life. Gradually moving from different mediums, his practice began with dot works and pointillism to paintings that incorporate collaging techniques.
As Andre’s works revolve around mod ern-day mythologies coiled with idiosyn cratic views towards society, they project current social issues and cultural values. His subjects are often compounded with contrasting imageries, where the polarity of elements are symbolic references of our surroundings. Subtly nuanced by Balinese influences, his works take you on a self-im posing journey to explore your own unique view of the world.
The artist recently showcased his works at ‘STEM Show 2’, STEM Projects, Yogyakar ta, ‘Post Identity’, Artsphere Gallery, Jakar ta, and ‘Kuta Kembali’, South Beach Kuta, Bali.
As a way to understand this island he calls home, the recurring theme within Nugi Ketut’s work has always been cen tred around Bali. Through moments of solitude and stillness, he contemplates on the importance of socio-historical constructions of tourism which he re-in terprets to become the subject of his illustrations.
He recently had a solo exhibition titled ‘Ir rationality of Joy’ at Indus Gallery, Ubud, and showcased his works at Sangkring Gallery, Yogyakarta, and Titik Dua for the Ubud Print Fair.
Nova Kusuma is a collage artist from Bali who began exploring the medium as he watched his friends create collages and murals in empty buildings. His works are a touchstone to the things he ob serves throughout his daily life, drawing influences from music, sci-fi horror films, social politics and street culture to create multi-universes in paper form. By merging historical with contemporary worlds, Nova maintains to use analogue and primitive techniques throughout his practice, as his process lies in deconstructing what exists to recreate it into something new.
Putu Surya Dharma Putra was born in Denpasar, Bali and is a contemporary, abstract and surrealist illustrator. His work expresses the chaotic yet alluring nature of our surroundings – communicating the invisible forces of our existence. His use of vibrant colours is a binary between Bali nese and Japanese traditional art, as they are literate representations of mythical creatures from these cultures.
His recent exhibitions include ‘Sang Kala’ at Fraksi Epos, Bali and ‘Korabo’ at the grand opening of Voila x Joged Art House, Bali.
SwoofOne is a Balinese street artist who works with various mediums. Drawing in spiration from sacred geometry found in Hindu culture and producing unique patterns and motifs, he merges traditional forms of contemporary messages into one entity. Reflected throughout his works is the artist’s ability to oscillate between inhabiting a highly self-conscious esoteric and a fully conscious exoteric space.
SwoofOne’s works has been showcased in Art Moments Jakarta, Ubud Print Fair, Titik Dua, Bali, and Ashta District 8, Jakarta.
Dwymabim a visual artist from Bali whose works are a blend of Balinese and pop culture embodied in female form. He at tempts to capture beauty in all senses to engross his viewers with contrasting co lours as a unification of the diverse nature of our culture. He has created murals around the streets of Bali and showcased his works at ’T.A.K.S.U’ exhibition, Titik Dua, Ubud, Fraksi Epos, South Beach, Kuta, and ‘Muka Tembok Edisi’, Astha District, SCBD, Jakarta.
Kuncir Sathya Viku is a Balinese visual artist who was exposed to various art performances at an early age. Despite non-direct artist inheritance, he was pushed to explore performance arts such as Balinese dance and Gamelan. These have led him to pursue a degree in Visual Communication Design at Den pasar Institute of Art in 2013 and worked as a Graphic Designer for several years until he decided to make a path of his own. During his exploration, hie became drawn to the wonders of Balinese sorcery known as ‘Rerajahan’ - a combination of symbols and texts - that most Balinese preserve as sacred. A personal heritage he thought was worth exploring and de veloping.
His research of this sacred Balinese script had led him to use the style as the base of his drawing. The artist incorporates it into a cartoon with popping colours and strange-surreal characters. He works with various mediums, where they each depict the social and personal issues through the use of satire to portray them in a comical sense.
Kuncir’s recent exhibitions include ‘Un folding the Current Ripple by Puri Art Gal lery, Titik Dua, Ubud, ‘Shades of Belief’ by Black Hand Gang, Deus Ex Machina, Canggu and ‘Rhythmic Ceramics’, Uma Seminyak, Bali.
Based in Yogyakarta, Wayan Yusa Dirgan tara is an abstract visual artist from Bali. Before embarking on his art degree, the artist discovered that he suffered from par tial colour blindness, which led him to cre ate monochrome works at the start of his practice. As he attempted to understand colours solely from reading theories and their descriptions, he formed a strong sense of imagination about how others would per ceive them. As a result, Yusa began creat ing his own interpretation of tones beyond what the eye could see – associating it with meaning and emotion.
Where we perceive tinted colours of the ocean and serendipitous pink strokes, he views them as brown and earthy pigments. Yusa’s work uses colour to manifest memo ries, stories, feelings, and our spirituality in a physical form.
The artist was a finalist at the UOB paint ing of the year, 2021, and has showcased works in Art Jakarta, Art Sphere Gallery x Artotel, Jakarta, and 1326 Gallery in Seoul, Korea.
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