Tiba Tanpa Berangkat
8 Nov - 7 Des 2025
Mancanagara and Widyasena depart from two distinct historical points. Mancanagara interrogates the colonization of knowledge in the past, while Widyasena addresses the colonization of imagination in the present; how global modernity positions Indonesia as a spectator rather than an actor. Yet both share the same awareness: that knowledge production in Indonesia moves in a perpetual loop, forever promising departure, yet remaining in the same place.
Maharani Mancanagara
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Maharani Mancanagara (b. 1990) was born in Padang, West Sumatra (Indonesia). Her work reflects on and reinterprets Indonesia’s complex and sometimes sensitive issues of modern sociopolitical and cultural history through fictional storytelling. She studied printmaking at the Institut Teknologi Bandung, where she began to utilize drawing, print, painting and installation often time on used wood […]
see detailed profileNurrachmat Widyasena
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Nurrachmat Widyasena (b. 1990), known as Mas Ito, is an Indonesian artist based in Bandung. A graduate of ITB’s Faculty of Art and Design in printmaking, Mas Ito explores retro-futurism by standing at the intersection of reality and fantasy. Positioning himself as a stupid third-world Asian, he humorously reflects on forgotten Space Age ideals and […]
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