The title of this exhibition comes from a term commonly used in musical engineering. Sustained is a parameter of time indicating a period where the sound persists before becoming inaudible or silent. Rest in musical terms is to stop or be silent; what remains is an object that does not move. Sustained Rest is an object that remains silent or a state of silence. However, sustained rest can still be heard and felt when presented.
The 'Sustained Rest' exhibition presents the substance of several artists with different creative mediums and materials used in the selection of works with color harmony. This exhibition seeks to create color harmony and tension between the object and the medium, with the diversity of the mediums owned by the artists through harmonization in color. Color plays an essential role in influencing a person's moods, emotions, sensations, and perceptions, which can offer the possibility of multifaceted interpretation.
The artists will be using Jung's theory, Heidegger's theory, and Tactile Space theory to convey the sensations of their works that are present to form perception. Eventually, these sensory receptions will continue to become a well-stored memory through the works of sustained rest, color, and space harmony.
Sustained Rest Artist Biographies
A. Sebastianus (b. 1995) is an artist who achieved the William Daley Award for Excellence in Art History and Craft in 2017. Trained as an apprentice in his grandmother's hometown of East Java, he mastered the art of weaving, which has become essential in his exploration of visual and material ontology.
In this exhibition Sebastian presents un-functions domestic objects and blurred photographs, into memorabilia that recollects masculine intimacies of interfamilial and romantic nature. In Sejauh Menengankanmu (2014-2018), a mattress decays carrying the intimacies of love and hardships between partners over 4 years. Tak teringat, tak terlupa (2022), remnants of living room frame a frame the once called home, unremembered yet unforgotten. Papa #02 (2022) stitches the tabooed and early rare intimacies between a father and son, that diminishes over time yet remains stitched. Displace, deformed, and post-purpose use households and abstract photographs for Sebastian becomes the photograph album of his life. The most powerful memories aren’t figuratively or narratively described but rather blurred vascularity and emotional reconfigurations is where the artist holds.
Bonggal Jordan Hutagalung (b. 1988) received his bachelor’s degree in ceramic art from the Faculty of Art and Design, Bandung Institute of Technology. His experience growing up in a house full of antique and eclectic pieces, has inspired his creative work today. He has participated in many exhibitions since 2009. He final year project piece “Eskapisme & Proses Produksi Konsumsi” was nominated for the 2012 Soemardja Awards.
Bonggal presents his three-dimensional work in the form of singular objects and is inspired by stone inscriptions that are timeless and fragile. According to Bonggal, ceramic media is the best medium for recording important messages for a long period of time. Bonggal's notes in his work attempt to uncover and criticize the phenomenon of social and critical issues regarding the development of art of this contemporary art period. Bonggal re-presents points from various eras- both inside and outside the world of art in a pessimistic and realistic language by inserting social context into an object and blending it into a work of art.
Galih Adika (b. 1994, Serang) graduated from the Painting Studio of the Fine Arts Study Program in 2018. In his work, Galih binds objects as a means to explore matters of subjective transformation. Through his practice, Galih tries to explore themes about the relationship between subject and object. Questioning the transformation of values and meanings: virtual to physical or real objects to ideas. Galih imagines the processed material (including pictures & objects) as a text that can appear as is, slashed, switched, eliminated, or set aside. His last works observe the process of how humans interpret their own memories in constructing an experience.
Yuki Nakayama is an artist born and raised in Okinawa, Japan. In 2008, she decided to move to New York to pursue her passion for the arts. Graduated from Parsons the New School for Design, she studied interior design where she began exploring spaces of play in the domestic and public environment. As her interest grew to larger scales, she graduated from The Cooper Union, where she studied architecture. Before coming back to Okinawa, she lived in New York for over ten years.
Nakayama pours out fragment site objects from specifics in canvas media, presents objects in architecture, and layer plays in her work; fascinated by the architecture of the playground, her work is influenced and motivated by history and urgency. She believed that play was the basis of existence; it is an inherited tool for survival from the moment you are born. She tries to move between real three-dimensional spaces and two-dimensional images; her interest lies in those spaces that may be lost in translation. The movement of the space is painted in bold, while the lines carve out details that invite perspective to the audience. Yuki plays with color and creates spaces to highlight each area of her work; there is a narrative in each perspective that unfolds in the title that makes a conversation between space, characters, and appreciators.
Yusra Martunus (b. 1973, Padangpanjang) is an Indonesian artist known for his creative ideas and various uses of media to convey meaningful narratives. He studied at the Yogyakarta Institute of the Arts (Institut Seni Indonesia Yogyakarta), majoring in Fine Arts. He is one of the founders of an art group in Indonesia, the Window Art Group. He was awarded the Best of McDonald Art Award in 1994, The Best of Indonesia Asean Art Award in 2003 and was a finalist at the Asian Art Awards in 2004. In his work, Martunus uses media to create metaphors into paradoxical meanings. It interferes with people's perception of matter, objects and forms and is subjective by manipulating the material properties of the objects. The enigmatic quality of his works invites audiences to challenge themselves and create their narrative.
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