2022
Navigating Entropy
Gajah Gallery Yogyakarta
July 23, 2022 – August 21, 2022
Founded in 2012 by Gajah Gallery’s director Jasdeep Sandhu and the Yogyakarta-based artist Yunizar, YAL is a rare platform for artists to experiment with unconventional mediums, and work closely with expert craftsmen. Constantly evolving based on the needs of the artists, the team at YAL has worked with materials ranging from paper, aluminum, ceramics to Fresnel lenses, and specialises particularly in bronze. For 10 years, YAL has empowered artists to explore new forms in their work. Artists who had previously focused purely on paintings have been challenged to create bold, sculptural pieces that have since marked crucial expansions in their oeuvre. Artists who had largely worked in the isolation of their studios learned to partake in the process of collaboration and involving many hands in the creation of a work.
Founded in 2012 by Gajah Gallery’s director Jasdeep Sandhu and the Yogyakarta-based artist Yunizar, YAL is a rare platform for artists to experiment with unconventional mediums, and work closely with expert craftsmen. Constantly evolving based on the needs of the artists, the team at YAL has worked with materials ranging from paper, aluminum, ceramics to Fresnel lenses, and specialises particularly in bronze. For 10 years, YAL has empowered artists to explore new forms in their work. Artists who had previously focused purely on paintings have been challenged to create bold, sculptural pieces that have since marked crucial expansions in their oeuvre. Artists who had largely worked in the isolation of their studios learned to partake in the process of collaboration and involving many hands in the creation of a work.
Suzann Victor continues a motif she has been exploring since the early 1990s: phallic brinjals. Using the aluminum medium to capture the fine details of the decomposing fruits, Victor captures the beauty in their “imperfection and abjectness”.
As they collaborated with the foundry to create these works, the artists ultimately embraced a philosophy that embraces risks and uncertainties, the organic transformations of materials and forms, and the chaos that informs some of the most fruitful creative processes. While the participating artists come from different contexts and artistic traditions across the region, what ties them together is that by partaking in residencies at YAL, they have all, in varying degrees, navigated entropy.
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