The traveling exhibition “Behind the Terrain – sketches on imaginative landscapes” examines questions that emerge from the interrelation of the politics of remembrance, memory, as well as individual historicities within critical research and art practices. The focus on landscape, in terms of imaginary narrative as well as politics behind actual terrain, is brought into perspective by artists with different cultural and immigrant backgrounds and their relationship to defining terms like: “migration”, “border” or “identity”, and the landscapes of their practice. The exhibition will travel through Southeast and East Asia.
The project aims to ask following questions: how is the history and memory of conflict and repression unearthed, and how has it been forgotten? Is this amnesia encouraged by a modern state of materialism? How does landscape ground us, at the same time, support a re-imagination of the invisible? And, lastly, how does the navigation of this in/visible terrain produce a mapping of our daily lives?
Date November 22 – December 8, 2016
Venue Studio Kalahan, Gamping, Sleman, 55294 Yogyakarta City, Indonesia
Artist Martha Atienza, Veronika Burger, Ishu Han, Ran Kokubun, Mamoru, Maryanto, Ta Minh Duc, Stephanie Misa, Linh Phuong Nguyen, Elia Nurvista, Agni Saraswati
Curator Mika Maruyama, Stephanie Misa
Project Manager Putri Siswanto