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A mother from Serpong has brought her children to the Intimate Distance exhibition in Jakarta, and wrote about her experience appreciating the works with them.
She wrote that as she was looking at the row of “passports” (of (Re)Collection of Togetherness), trying very hard to analyze and think about it, her first child announced to her that the work is actually a collection of mosquitoes.
I imagined the child having been looking at the work from a different angle already and seeing the pressed mosquitoes inside them – while the mother, regardless of her eye/spatial movement, was still fixating on the cover of the books (the “passports”) in her mind.
Very interesting.
Perhaps passport covers make stronger impression for adults, whereas for children they don’t mean that much – at least not more important than the dead mosquitoes inside.
But aren’t we all children deep down inside?
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