MES 56 @ CCP - MELBOURNE

28.10.2011—11.12.2011
GALLERY 3
JIM ALLEN ABEL, WIMO AMBALA BAYANG, AKIQ AW, AGAN HARAHAP AND ANGKI PURBANDONO. CURATED BY KRISTI MONFRIES AND GEORGIE SEDGWICK
RUANG MES56: CONTEMPORARY PHOTOGRAPHY FROM INDONESIA

For the last ten years the artists in the Ruang Mes56 collective have been responding to changes occurring within their rapidly developing nation, Indonesia. Primarily working in photography, their work offers insights into the issues they face as a generation responsible for their own future—a future vision, shaped in part by the images they create.

Curated by Kristi Monfries and Georgie Sedgwick, the exhibition presents works by five artists from the Ruang Mes56 stable: Wimo Ambala Bayang, Akiq AW, Agan Harahap, Angki Purbandono and Jim Allen Abel. Jim Allen Abel's works visually deconstruct authority through the symbol of the uniform, utilising performance art practices, action and awkwardness, whilst Agan Harahap's playful anthropomorphic images question Indonesian cultural attitudes towards the natural world. Angki Purbandono's disturbing and ironic 'fashion book' observes outsider fashion styles of the homeless and forgotten on the streets of Yogyakarta and Jakarta. Wimo Ambala Bayang's photographs critique contemporary political and cultural realities through the prism of Javanese mythology. Akiq AW's work explores the visual semiotics of space through the ordering of colour and shape, resulting in a highly coded series of images that try to make sense of a landscape that is by nature chaotic.

Ruang Mes56 is at the forefront of the contemporary photography movement in Indonesia, a young scene that is attracting the attention of the local and international community for its fresh take on the medium, as well as the insights they offer into contemporary Indonesian society as it shapes—and is shaped by—our increasingly globalised world.

Acapella

:p:p:p:p

Rumah Yang Hebat

Pernah ada keceriaan dan kepedihan yang mendalam di tempat ini.
Tapi dengan berat hati, kami terpaksa harus membungkusnya baik- baik dalam kenangan.

Selamat tinggal rumah yang hebat, semoga di suatu hari nanti engkau pun dapat menjadi berkat bagi penghuni baru mu.


















Hormat kami,


________________________________
Keluarga Harahap

The Last Tango In Nagan Lor 17

It's Not Over Yet

HM Soeharto
Peninggalan Soeharto masih diperdebatkan sampai saat ini. Dalam masa kekuasaannya, yang disebut Orde Baru, Soeharto membangun negara yang stabil dan mencapai kemajuan ekonomi dan infrastruktur. Suharto juga membatasi kebebasan warganegara Indonesia keturunan Tionghoa, menduduki Timor Timur, dan dianggap sebagai rezim paling korupsi sepanjang masa dengan jumlah $AS 15 miliar sampai $AS 35 miliar.Usaha untuk mengadili Soeharto gagal karena kesehatannya yang memburuk. Setelah menderita sakit berkepanjangan, ia meninggal karena kegagalan organ multifungsi di Jakarta pada tanggal 27 januari 2008.

Under The Stage Light

Unwittingly, music is one of important thing that makes people can relax for a moment from the daily routine.
Under the stage lights, we can laugh and sing together. For a moment to forget the hard life.