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“Malam di Jari Kita” adalah proyek seni rupa berbasis hubungan sosial yang merayakan kehidupan dan tangan-tangan terampil di balik batik. Mintio & Kabul bekerjasama dengan para pembatik dari desa Kebon Indah untuk menciptakan ‘potret diri’ unik, yang menggabungkan realisme fotografi dengan sifat dekoratif dan simbolis motif batik. Perpaduan fotografi dan batik ini adalah hasil dari proses perjalanan seni bersama para perempuan pembatik ini. Melalui proyek ini, seniman mengakui peran penting perempuan sebagai pencipta budaya dalam masyarakat Indonesia dan menjelajahi hubungan mereka dengan keluarganya, masyarakat desa, dan kerajinan yang mereka buat.
iCAN (Indonesia Contemporary Art Network)
Jl. Suryodiningratan 39 Yogyakarta
Pembukaan: Sabtu, 7 April 2012, 19.00 WIB
Pameran: 7 April-7 Mei 2012, 11.00-20.00 WIB
Dialog bersama seniman: Sabtu, 14 April 2012, 16.00 WIB
Gratis dan terbuka untuk umum
Website: www.malamdijarikita.com
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Budi Agung Kuswara (Kabul) was born in Bali in 1982 and had graduated in a Bachelor in Fine Art from Indonesia Institute of the Art. Kabul was invited to exhibit at the Jogja Biennale, the Bali Museum, Neka Art Museum, and presented by Valentine Willie Fine Art for the “3 Young Contemporaries” program as one of the most cutting edge young contemporary artist in Southeast Asia. He was also invited to an art project for the UN Climate Change Conference in Bali in 2007. Together with Mintio, Kabul has presented their collaborative work on an international scale at the Asian Triennial in Manchester and at the San Francisco Art Institute. Kabul will be working on the artist in residency program at Fukouka Asian Art Museum mid this year. He is currently preparing for his solo exhibition at TAKSU Gallery in Singapore scheduled for late 2012.
Samantha Tio (Mintio) began her practice as a fine art photographer while pursuing her Bachelors in Fine Art at the School of Art, Design and Media at Nanyang Technological University in 2005. Working primarily with large format photography, she believes that technical choices are the key elements in the personalization her work. In her most notable series “Concrete Euphoria”, Mintio works uses the large format camera to photograph urban landscapes around Asia. Her subsequent series “Conveyance” was acquired by the Singapore Art Museum. Mintio’s new body of work, “~*THOY*~ (The Hall of Hyperdelic Youths)”, exploring the connections between spirituality and the cyber-world through adolescent computer gamers, was exhibited at Valentine Willie Fine Art around the Southeast Asian region.
