Analogous - Jompet x Anggawan Exhibition

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The term Analogous is commonly used in biology to describe the similarity of function and superficial resemblance of structures with different origins. As one can see, a strand of similarity between the two artists Jompet Kuswidananto and Timoteus Anggawan Kusno is that they use fiction and imagination in history as a method to uncover tales and/ or unfinished matter from post-reformation and post-dictatorship periods that have not been told. This was an era in which society was controlled and suppressed by the strict governmental regime. However, the artists have started differently. Both approach similar themes such as politics, history, and culture, but their origin of artistic approach is distinct from one another. On the one hand, Jompet Kuswidananto was heavily inspired by his musical and theatrical sense; on the other, Timoteus Anggawan Kusno predominantly incorporates moving images and metafiction approaches in his drawings and installations.