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Poet’s Shop was chosen as the title of this art project because it conveys irony or parody of the market phenomenon. It is obvious that poetry is far from market collateral. In daily life, advertising, bumper, dawah, entertainment, etc., have taken over the role of poetry and they appear as “electronic poets” or “digital shamans”. The word ‘shop’, which means a place for selling goods and services, the tangible and intangible, the literal and symbolic, is worth borrowing to carry her purpose. This shop is like a showroom for the modern concept of teleshopping marketing. Being held inside a mall, the exhibition seems to make the shops inside it become “entry points” or psychological “conditioning” for the audience before entering the “art zone” of Poet Shop. Then, the audience is guided to enter the artistic and personal zone to come close to the objects of art, video works, print works, audio works that stimulate them to use all their senses and to experience gray areas among them. Everything is intended as a process of personal communication. Just take a look a bit and then close your eyes and just listen to the sound of “Kursi Merah Mendaras”. In the mini installation work titled “Secangkir
Teh” (A Cup of Tea), you can see a chain of media sconsisting of video, found objects and typography. This work wants to invite you to have an experience with poetry; not only by reading and listening but also by seeing. The work titled “Penyair dalam Wastafel” stimulates us to activate our senses and to experience the limits of the physical existence of coral, fish and algae that represent the body of Hanna – the body of a poet, an actor and a symbol. Then, enjoy other explorations to her poems on Krisna’s other works and celebrate the world of shop today. Hopefully you can get a bonus by indulging yourself here at the Poet’s Shop.
POET’S SHOP: INDULGING THE HEART, Solo Exhibition of Krisna Murti November 3 – 20, 2011 Langgeng Gallery - Jakarta Art District
Grand Indonesia Shopping Mall Town, Jakarta
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