{"id":9271,"date":"2025-11-06T08:09:35","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T00:09:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=9271"},"modified":"2025-11-06T08:09:35","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T00:09:35","slug":"artists-indonesia-themed-works-explore-life-death-and-transformation-in-hong-kong-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=9271","title":{"rendered":"Artists\u2019 Indonesia-themed works explore life, death and transformation in Hong Kong shows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Bali-based independent curator Galuh Sukardi had long toyed with the idea of curating an exhibition exploring the rituals and traditions practised in her native Indonesia.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Galuh Sukardi spent years championing Southeast Asian art through her roles with Sotheby\u2019s, White Cube and David Zwirner. Now, with Indonesian art having a moment, she felt the time was ripe to celebrate artists connected to the archipelago.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Diving deep into the country\u2019s rich culture \u2013 which has been influenced by periods under Dutch, Portuguese and Japanese rule \u2013 appealed to her. She was also keen to explore her own heritage and Islamic roots, which she felt she had become less connected to after years of living abroad.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cIn Bali, wherever you look, you see a sculpture or a shrine or a carved mythical creature,\u201d Galuh Sukardi says. \u201cBut I didn\u2019t realise what I was consuming and what I was questioning.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"image-inline-container e1a5rv550 css-1llrc1m e1yqhwb40\" data-qa=\"Component-renderMap-StyledDiv\">\n<div class=\"image-inline caption e1fvabeq0 css-19sk4h4 ea9pn0s0\" data-qa=\"Component-Container\">\n<figure class=\"image-inline caption ea9pn0s1 css-1qeofuq e1gf69pb0\" data-qa=\"ArticleImage-ArticleImageContainer\">\n<div data-qa=\"ArticleImage-handleRenderImage-ImageContainer\" class=\"css-0 e1gf69pb3\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Threshold curator Galuh Sukardi at White Cube Hong Kong. Photo: Jonathan Wong\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/img.i-scmp.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/fit=contain,width=1024,format=auto\/sites\/default\/files\/d8\/images\/canvas\/2025\/11\/05\/6e39b764-4334-4c59-8251-25451e000c17_e25fa0ac.jpg\" title=\"Threshold curator Galuh Sukardi at White Cube Hong Kong. Photo: Jonathan Wong\"\/><\/div><figcaption data-qa=\"ArticleImage-DescriptionContainer\" class=\"css-1ixmelf e1gf69pb1\">Threshold curator Galuh Sukardi at White Cube Hong Kong. Photo: Jonathan Wong<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Then one day, while looking out the window of her villa, she had a light-bulb moment, and it was in black and white.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/lifestyle\/arts\/article\/3331627\/artists-indonesia-themed-works-explore-life-death-and-transformation-hong-kong-shows?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bali-based independent curator Galuh Sukardi had long toyed with the idea of curating an exhibition exploring the rituals and traditions practised in her native Indonesia&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1864,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[462,159,4874,3569,8339,5231,402,5679,8340,3155],"class_list":["post-9271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bored-interesting","tag-artists","tag-death","tag-explore","tag-hong","tag-indonesiathemed","tag-kong","tag-life","tag-shows","tag-transformation","tag-works","wpcat-33-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9271\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}