“ Je moet ons geloven !”

Portrait menjadi sebuah media yang dikonstruksi oleh subyek dan obyek dalam sebuah kolaborasi demi suatu tujuan, entah yang bernama pencitraan, propaganda, provokasi, juga kepalsuan maupun kejujuran sebuah sosok, dan menjadi pembenaran kehadiran mereka yang berlaku sebagai sebuah pernyataan sosial. Tradisi pencitraan yang dilakukan kolonial Hindia-Belanda, elit lokal (Priyayi), Mojang Bandung, hingga masyarakat umum melalui swafoto akan menjadi fokus utama dalam proses kekaryaan. Melalui karya, KOMVNI Photocollective berupaya menggali kesadaran publik untuk lebih bijak membaca, menyikapi, dan merespon portrait sebagai bentuk visual yang mereka konsumsi maupun produksi di ruang publik dan media massa saat ini. 

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KOMVNI photo collective
“ Je moet ons geloven !”
Deden Hendan Durahman, Henrycus Napit Sunargo, Adhya Ranadireksa, Sari Asih

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Rumah Seni Ropih - Basement
Jl Braga no 43, Bandung
10-25 Oktober 2017

Artist Talk: Selasa 10 Oktober 2017, 16:00
Resepsi Pembukaan: Selasa 10 Oktober 2017, 18:30

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Pameran ini diselenggarakan sebagai bagian dari rangkaian Seni Bandung 2017 #SeniBandung  www.SeniBandung.id

Ready to contribute in our project? Give us a photograph of Singapore, or two, or four, seven is good too – and we depict tales of a city at Singapore Biennale 2013

Send us your view!

• Post yours through email at submit.komvni@gmail.com OR tweet#komunichange OR FB page
• The images should be 15 x 10 cm, 150dpi. Please includes name/date taken/place taken.
• You may submit as much as you like, no restriction applied.
• The images will be use solely for our project at Singapore Biennale 2013 purpose. No commercial value applied.

The submission is open from now until February 14th, 2014 (end of biennale).

What we do

With your help, we want to wake up the archives of the city, the city of Singapore. The archive, then, will be turned into a library of visual memory of an ever-changing city, rapid but meandering changes. We want to collect and show the good, the bad & the ugly, the delicious and wreckage, the uncanny and repressed, happiness and joy of you, you and you too, and us as well.

Archival materials are re-animated, opened-up partially, given a second life in our library change in 7 days at the National Library of Singapore during Singapore Biennale 2013 (and perhaps long after there or elsewhere when we are no longer present). Visual materials are retrieved from the city’s multiple archives to give you a chance to connect and re-connect, browse through, borrow memories, point out to one and another stories thought long lost and recount them anew.

Moreover, we will respond in individual, artistic ways to a selection we each make of the visual materials salvaged from the archives and the images you kindly submitted. In so doing, we weave our threads into this city, your city as our temporary base, a brief home from which we return with memories, our memento mori on our homecoming to Bandung, a city with a different beat.

Cities, certainly, are only built metaphorically in 7 days. However, 7 days is ample time to spectacularly wipe out an entire metropolis with its sinners, specters and samurais of the face of the earth. 7 days is also plentiful of time to alter our imagined city. Images can move us – move us to built a city, multiple cities out of our memory to remember, to be committed to, jointly…

From time to time, people define themselves by way of fashion and accessorizing. When these "accessories" dominate them, their personality becomes overshadowed by the way we look, and their sense of self becomes skewed.

However, if our true self returns to the way it was, that is, without any external enhancements, then the identity that emerges becomes absolute. 

The Legend (Now) #1
2010, C-Print on resin-coated photo paper

The Legend (Now) #2
2010, C-Print on resin-coated photo paper

The Legend (Now) #3
2010, C-Print on resin-coated photo paper

Back inside, this chamber of so many doors; I've nowhere, nowhere to hide. I'd give you all of my dreams, if you'd help me, find a door that doesn't lead me back again, take me away

- Genesis, The Chamber of 32 Doors

When I think about the so-called “postcolonial”, my attention on something that is inherited from the colonial period. Understanding colonialism does not refer only to the literal sense-the colony’s lawyers, but also synonymous with imperialism and feudalism. This is the negative part of colonialism, and values is what actually forwarded by the ruler of the heir to the colonial power.

These values relate to criminal restraint involves ways of thinking, way of talking, ways of view, how to feel, in short, the way we view the world even understand ourselves. These things then me illustrate with a specific treatment on the organs of the body, which is part of the body that govern our perception of the world. This illustration similar metaphor, as reflected in the expression “a forked tongue.

"For me the body organ is the “subtle body” that connect the outer body and spirit that’s in there. Spirit is not willing, “subtle body” who willed. Back on colonialism, for me, follow the colonial powers took aim our “subtle bodies”.

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Nachkrieg / After the War #3
Digital Photography, BW Kodak C-Print, 120x60cm, 2011-2012

Nachkrieg / After the War #2
Digital Photography, BW Kodak C-Print, 120x60cm, 2011-2012

A project base on the Artists Residency /research Program in Germany as a respon to the Photography Archives of The Archive Museum in Braunschweig and Münster. The Program was Supported by the DAAD, HBK-Braunschweig, City of Braunschweig and Münster.