Diantara Tapal

Suvi Wahyudianto records the history of his life in a dense emotional crust in his works. For Suvi, reflecting on these events is building the momentum of memory, which he then embodies in poetry and visual works. Writing poetry is an important stage in Suvi's work method, such as the initial effort to find the right words as an articulation of thoughts, memories, feelings, but also awareness to embrace stronger social issues.

Following Suvi's works in the next period, especially the period of his pilgrimage to the Kalimantan region, where he traced a conflict event that was very meaningful to the Madurese, Suvi's works moved from anger into an orchestration of various reflections on social history that was full of trauma and became part of the contestation of identity politics. Although we see emotional traces from these works, Suvi also provides a strong and important social context for us to build understanding or open collective memory in a narrative that has long been constructed by power. How the meeting space between souls, between bodies, between memories, builds a process to build new brotherhood and solidarity, bringing dark history as the past. As the cliché goes: forgive, but not forget.

This exhibition spans Suvi Wahyudianto's pilgrimage to reimagine his personal history, which is intertwined with various socio-political conflicts and anthropological landscapes related to his identity as a Madurese, between spaces that feel close and foreign at the same time.