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Citra Sasmita

CITRA SASMITA

Into Eternal Land Barbican 30 January–21 April 2025 London
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The Indonesian artist transforms The Curve in her first solo UK exhibition. Via painting, installation, embroidery and scent, take a sensory journey exploring ancestral memory, ritual and migration.

Sasmita’s practice often engages with the Indonesian Kamasan painting technique. Dating from the fifteenth century, and traditionally practiced exclusively by men, Kamasan was used to narrate Hindu epics. Reclaiming this masculine practice, Sasmita is interested in dismantling misconceptions of Balinese culture and confronting its violent colonial past. Challenging gender hierarchies and reinventing mythologies, her protagonists are powerful women who populate a post-patriarchal world.

Citra Sasmita is a self-taught artist; she studied literature and physics, then worked as a short story illustrator for the Bali Post before she began developing her expanded artistic practice.

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Citra Sasmita is a Balinese multidisciplinary artist whose work was included in Biennale Jogja XV (Jogja Biennale) in 2019 and has since been presented at major international biennials and museums worldwide, including at Venice. In 2025, she realised ’Into Eternal Land’, a major solo commission for The Curve at the Barbican Centre, London—her first solo exhibition in the United Kingdom.

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About the Gallery

The Barbican is a world-renowned arts and learning hub in the City of London, celebrated for its striking Brutalist architecture and multidisciplinary programming. Opened in 1982 as part of the larger Barbican Estate, it has become a cultural landmark, bringing together visual arts, music, theatre, dance, film, and education under one roof.

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London Barbican Centre, Silk Street
Barbican contemporary art institution in London United Kingdom
Barbican
Silk Street, London, United Kingdom
http://www.barbican.org.uk

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Monday – Sunday, 9.30am – 11pm
Bank Holidays, 12 – 11pm
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