ID - Indonesia in Berlin
Finding one’s identity in hypercultural space. A German-Indonesian exchange project.
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Tanah Dumpah Darah. 2010
Installation
Painting, drawings on cardboard, 15 fiberglass heads, objects
The first part of the work shows the jungle in Papua being clear cut to make way for huge palm oil plantations. In front of this image on the wall, the heads of aborigines sink into the mud of the bird’s-head-shaped peninsula in eastern Indonesia. In the second part of the installation, the Javanese artist answers his own work, now from a Berlin perspective: the destruction in faraway Papua is rooted in the anonymous big-city life of the West, for hardly any product of our daily life is without palm oil. And Indonesia is its primary producer.
© Photo: Haupt & Binder
Finding one’s identity in hypercultural space. A German-Indonesian exchange project.