Baik + Khneysser is pleased to present a two-person installation, featuring works by Mella Jaarsma and Jompet Kuswidananto, in the Presents section of the Armory Show at booth P27 from March 4–8, 2020.
Works by Dutch-born, Mella Jaarsma, include photographic documentation and artist made garments used for a site-specific performance conducted during the fairs opening reception. A gesture that builds on the artist's continued practice of constructing tapestries made of cultural signifiers that allude to ways in which trade, globalisation, and diaspora affect individualism within larger political structures.
Similarly, Jompet Kuswidananto focuses his attention towards installations of banal objects that present conceptual discourses around collective hardship and cultural uncertainty. Although physically devoid, the implied figures within his work hold a strong presence as displays of regalia and defaced domestic goods reveal a literal and ideological emptiness that is perhaps more visceral than either object's original form.
The gallery's installation will further examine each artists relationship to the body politic as well as their use of void to contemplate its multiple allusions to Indonesia's checkered relationship with foreign influence and government reform. From references to Indonesia's colonial period, to suggestions of cultural fluidity, this installation exposes the figure as a malleable construct-transformed endlessly by trauma. This focus on reinvention poses increasingly complex and interconnected challenges that address globalised modernity as something equally haunting and hopeful.
LOCATION & DATES
LOCATION
711 12th Avenue
Pier 90 and Pier 94
New York City
2020 VIP PREVIEW
Invitation Only
Wednesday, 4 March
2020 PUBLIC DAYS
Thursday, 5 March | 12–8 pm
Friday, 6 March | 12–8 pm
Saturday, 7 March | 12–7 pm
Sunday, 8 March | 12–6 pm