Benjamin Soedira

3 February — 25 February 2023

11:00am — 6:00pm

Benjamin Soedira is a Glasgow-based artist who works predominantly with the photographic medium as a means of understanding and exploring. Soedira’s work encapsulates ideas of belonging and foreignness, both coinciding with one another in order to create the idea of home and familiarity. The visual work created follows the documentary elements within the photographic medium, whilst pushing the photograph in a way that can be read conceptually and descriptively.

Soedira’s new work and current work-in-progress Jongen aims to explore a family history entangled in repression and landscape. Through which, Soedira will travel through Indonesia to West Papua (his father’s birthplace) to reunite with family, along with understanding an identity so little is known about. Soedira hopes to break down preconceptions of Indonesian identities by slowly moving forward with his father’s motherland, West Papua. A dark colonial past alongside the dizzying everyday life of a place Soedira is still navigating. Jongen aims to find answers in a place where family and identity have been out of reach.