October 22,2009
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Tuesday, 27 October 2009, 7.30 p.m.Galeri Nasional Indonesia, Galeri B - C
Jalan Medan Merdeka Timur no. 14, Jakarta 10110
Curated by Agung Hujatnikajennong
Officiated by
Carmanita, Fashion and Textile
Paul I.A.M. Peters, Head of Press and Culture, the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands
With more than 20 models wearing the works! Don’t miss it!
Accompanied with a catalogue and essays by
Agung Hujatnikajennong, Adeline Ooi, Eko Prawoto and Meta Knol.
The exhibition will run through 8 November 2009,
and travel to Selasar Sunaryo Art Space, Bandung (14 November – 6 December 2009).
The Fitting Room
Mella Jaarsma
Throughout the 25 years of her life in Indonesia, Mella Jaarsma’s artistic practice has become a microscope for examining the various aspects of a complex life. The influences of the environment she lives in Yogyakarta – a place where aspects of modernity and tradition compete and mix in a unique way – contribute to making her works full of unexpected puzzles of meaning. Her works are always provocative and subversive – inviting viewers to rethink social stereotypes, such as those concerning religion, social class, communal identity, ethnicity, morality, tradition, political ideology, etc.
In her work, Mella Jaarsma believes in a symbiotic chain that is bound by history and a specific sociological environment. She believes that the associations attached to a symbol held by one group will never actually be totally applied by another group. This can be seen in the materials she uses for her installations, performance art, and objects, such as cloth for army uniforms, frog skins, cocoons, zippers, seaweed, dried squid, etc. Showing a crisscrossing visual approaches to art and fashion, Mella’s works use materials treated as “textual substances” that are not neutral because they already have social or cultural constructs.
The Fitting Room will be presented as a semi-retrospective exhibition focusing on Mella’s major works since 1993 until now that use the idioms of ‘cover’ — in their various appearance such as clothing, tent, house, veil, hijab, etc. — as a doorway to unveil the meaning of identity and its cultural contradictions.
Mella Jaarsma (born in the Netherlands, 1960), studied visual art at ‘Minerva’ Academy, Groningen, the Art Institute of Jakarta and at the Indonesia Institute of the Arts, Yogyakarta. Her works have been presented widely in exhibitions in Indonesia as well as in major international art events in Singapore, Australia, Thailand, Korea, Italy, U.S.A, Japan, The Netherlands, Iran, etc
This exhibition is supported by
Selasar Sunaryo Art Space, Bandung; Valentine Willie Fine Art, Kuala Lumpur; the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, Jakarta; Philips, Jakarta.
The Fitting Room will be presented as a semi-retrospective exhibition focusing on Mella’s major works since 1993 until now that use the idioms of ‘cover’ — in their various appearance such as clothing, tent, house, veil, hijab, etc. — as a doorway to unveil the meaning of identity and its cultural contradictions.
Mella Jaarsma (born in the Netherlands, 1960), studied visual art at ‘Minerva’ Academy, Groningen, the Art Institute of Jakarta and at the Indonesia Institute of the Arts, Yogyakarta. Her works have been presented widely in exhibitions in Indonesia as well as in major international art events in Singapore, Australia, Thailand, Korea, Italy, U.S.A, Japan, The Netherlands, Iran, etc
This exhibition is supported by
Selasar Sunaryo Art Space, Bandung; Valentine Willie Fine Art, Kuala Lumpur; the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, Jakarta; Philips, Jakarta.
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