the weight of weightlessness
rhymes and rhythms of paper
an exhibition by Prilla
Tania, Irfan Hendrian and Ivana Stojakovic
curated by Roy Voragen
Dia.Lo.Gue. Art Space
Jalan Kemang Raya Selatan 99A, Jakarta
Tel: 021-719 9670
Opening: March 4, 2014
Opening officiated by Dr. Tisna Sanjaya
And a contemporary dance performance by Yola Yulfianti
Until: March 31, 214
the weight of
weightlessness: rhymes and rhythms of paper at Dia.Lo.Gue. Art Space is a contemporary art
exhibition by three Bandung-based artists: Prilla Tania
(Bandung, Indonesia 1979; see her blog: http://prillatania.wordpress.com/ and a review of a previous solo exhibition: http://bit.ly/17zyUCM),
Irfan Hendrian (Ohio, US, 1987; see his website: http://www.regmart.net, for his work process:
http://vimeo.com/irfanh and see for an
essay on his work: http://bit.ly/VLyQMk)
and Ivana Stojakovic (Belgrade, Serbia, 1976; see her website http://ivanastojakovic.webs.com and
a video on her work process: http://www.youtube.com/user/ivanastojakovic).
Prilla Tania, Irfan Hendrian and Ivana Stojakovic are three visual artists from
various backgrounds – but they share something, a love, a love for paper.
The versatility of paper is a common
thread throughout the artistic practices of these three artists. For the three
artists, paper is a medium and material at the very same time – with keen consideration, these three
artists give paper a different kind of life, a metaphorical life full of rhyme
and rhythm.
The three artists in this exhibition
work with and on paper, so that it remains an important element in the works
they create. In short, this exhibition illuminates the staggering versatility
of paper and, as such, this exhibition is an ode to paper.
In their works, paper is heavy and
light, compositions and rhythms are crafted with, in and on paper, paper is
used in unusual ways, pushed to its limits – cut, pressed, shredded and
re-assembled, printed on over and over again until breaking point – and in this
laborious process new forms are created, paper as body, and these forms are
connected to the spatiality of Dia.Lo.Gue. Art Space.
The three artists in this exhibition go
against the grain by persistently and quietly going their own way – along
meandering paths they show us paper in new lights. They mold paper into
compositions that are weighty or light and always poetic – or in other words: the
weight of weightlessness: rhymes and rhythms of paper.
Roy
Voragen (Bandung-based writer and curator)
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