While over there, the lowest in the society have to work the most, because they just don’t have any other option to survive, over here, the lowest in the society work the least, because they just can over here it’s…

There is a land where technology exists without electricity. This land is called magic. In magic, the willing audience are prepared to be awed by honest lies. They want to believe the fraud, as long as it’s entertaining. In magic…

Machine sketch, da capo al infinito.

4a.

Lure (2009) at Last Words: Asian Traffic, 4A Centre of Contemporary Asian Art, Sydney, 2010. Curated by Aaron Seeto. Thanks to Osage Gallery, Summar Hipworth, Samuel Zammut, Yu Ye, Richard Wolfson and Joelle. Photos by me. Video courtesy of Aaron…

ark.

Tintin Wulia: Deconstruction of a Wall, solo show at Ark Galerie, Jakarta. Curated by Alia Swastika. Thanks to Ronald Akili, Jason Gunawan, Putri Ayu. Photos courtesy of the artist, which is me.

blue sky.

I love to sit before my window, looking out to the world where art happens: Sketch for The Window of Contemporary Art (2010).

realities.

Out of the different kinds of realities, what I prefer is rarely the truth. Installation sketch for Nous ne notons pas les fleurs, Jakarta (2010). Nous ne notons pas les fleurs is a cycle of multi-form works exploring the ideas…

flowers and spices.

In Jakarta, it started like this. And ended like this. Stills from Nous ne notons pas les fleurs, Jakarta (2010). Thanks to Potato Head, Ark Galerie, Emmelyn Gunawan, Alia Swastika, Varadila Nurdin, Jefry Budiman, Gintani Nur Apresia Swastika, Elia Nurvista,…

bluish.

Installation view of the Great Wallpaper series. Photo courtesy of Cemeti Art House/Sari Handayani.   When I returned, she was still drawing. On the wall. Why, I asked her. Because it is a wall, she said. But why, I asked…

An understanding of death is what I had a microscopic glimpse of when I look at my face in the mirror and wonder whether they will force make up onto it while I lie in my coffin. An understanding of…