Indieguerillas

Jakarta, GARIS Artspace, INDIE WHAT? INDIE WHO?, March 27, 2010, exh. cat., p. 10, illustrated in colour

The works are in good condition. There are minor wear and handling marks particularly around the edges.The fluorescent lights are fully functional.
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"The juxtaposition, like the deformation, is an effort to obscure identity and simultaneously to establish relationships between the present days and objects that seem to passé or out of date and no longer relevant to the contemporary public... An example is the work titled I Got Ten Celebrity's Heads and Hefner Ain't One. The fundamental idea for the work is the evil giant Dasamuka or "Ten Faces" of the Ramayana wayang story. In the work, Indieguerillas juxtapose Dasamuka's body with a body of a contemporary youth in t-shirt, and the ten faces of Dasamuka are replaced with faces of contemporary figures or icons, some of them have negative reputations such as Mao, Lenin, and Mister Smile in the style of Hitler; and some others like TinTin, Astro Boy, Colonel Sanders, Captain America, Monalisa, and Hulk are faces that represent goodness. One of the issues that Indieguerillas wish to present through the work is that in the all-grey situation of the Javanese culture, which does not see things in black and white, someone can be considered good or evil depending on the perspective we use."
INDIE WHAT? INDIE WHO?, EXHIBITION CATALOGUE, GARIS ARTSPACE, JAKARTA, 2010, P. 8-9.