Morris Hork

(2002)

MORRIS ALIQSAN PIERO (known as MORRIS HORK b. 2002), is an artist from Yogyakarta currently pursuing his studies at Institut Seni Indonesia Yogyakarta. Since mid-2018, he has developed a focused engagement with portraiture, expanding his practice to encompass suburban landscapes and everyday objects as sites of reflection. Working through a supple and organic realist approach, Morris positions the female figure and the suburban landscape as points of convergence between visual events and spatial consciousness. Space, in his paintings, is not a passive backdrop but an active field—shaping and shaped by presence. Figures and environments dissolve into one another, forming fluid constellations of memory, atmosphere, and lived time. For Morris, painting is a process of rereading circumstances: landscapes and objects become projections of layered narratives where past recollections collide with present realities. His works construct moving cartographies of experience, suspended between memory and possibility, silence and transformation.