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'Pelicin': Visual artists' take on money
Sincerest form of flattery: Faisal Yeroushalaimâs âTilep Jayaâ project
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Sincerest form of flattery: Faisal Yeroushalaimâs âTilep Jayaâ project. (Courtesy of Komunitas Salihara/Witjak Widi Cahya)" border="0" height="331" width="498">Sincerest form of flattery: Faisal Yeroushalaimâs âTilep Jayaâ project. (Courtesy of Komunitas Salihara/Witjak Widi Cahya)Seven individual artists and an art collective delve into the issue of money and present a mostly humorous take on money, greed and everyday practices to get money in 2013 Jakarta Biennaleâs satellite exhibition that runs until Saturday in the Salihara Gallery.
In talking about the worldly issue of money, the young artists also talk about heaven and hell and morality in the exhibition titled Pelicin (Grease).
Faisal R. Yeroushalaim, an artist from Yogyakarta, looked at theft as a means to get money or something of value. Faisal made an open call on social media site Tumblr (tilepjaya.tumblr.com) to thieves to fence their stolen goods through him.
The thieves could name their own prices. He managed to collect more than 30 items from an insignificant sticker for the policeâs social campaign (sold in the gallery for Rp 300 [3 US cents]) to a motorcycle (Rp 4 million, the first thing sold on the opening day).
The Tilep Jaya (Long Live Pilfering) project displays all the objects from the thieves at Salihara Gallery, complete with a brief story on how and why the thieves stole the goods.
An Islam Defenders Front flag taken from Monas Square and a pair of traffic police cuffs snatched from an unmanned police post are also glued to the gallery wall.
While Faisal made pilfering somehow cool, Sulaiman Said from Jakarta took a sarcastic overtone on the mushrooming offers to get âquick cashâ by borrowing money from loan sharks. He made flyers in a style similar to those Jakartans see glued to electricity poles or trees.
âWant some cash? Me too.â âNeed cash? Contact: Your immediate family.â Both Mochamad Hasrul and Brian Suryajaya Gautama mock the avid money hunters among us who often target friends and family to buy their products. Hasrul addresses insurance agents and Brian the multi-level marketing concept.
Sincerest form of flattery: Faisal Yeroushalaim's 'Tilep Jaya' project. (Courtesy of Komunitas Salihara/Witjak Widi Cahya) Seven individual artists and an art collective delve into the issue of money and present a mostly humorous take on money, greed and everyday practices to get money in 2013 Jakarta Biennale's satellite exhibition that runs until Saturday in the Salihara Gallery.
In talking about the worldly issue of money, the young artists also talk about heaven and hell and morality in the exhibition titled Pelicin (Grease).
Faisal R. Yeroushalaim, an artist from Yogyakarta, looked at theft as a means to get money or something of value. Faisal made an open call on social media site Tumblr (tilepjaya.tumblr.com) to thieves to fence their stolen goods through him.
The thieves could name their own prices. He managed to collect more than 30 items from an insignificant sticker for the police's social campaign (sold in the gallery for Rp 300 [3 US cents]) to a motorcycle (Rp 4 million, the first thing sold on the opening day).
The Tilep Jaya (Long Live Pilfering) project displays all the objects from the thieves at Salihara Gallery, complete with a brief story on how and why the thieves stole the goods.
An Islam Defenders Front flag taken from Monas Square and a pair of traffic police cuffs snatched from an unmanned police post are also glued to the gallery wall.
While Faisal made pilfering somehow cool, Sulaiman Said from Jakarta took a sarcastic overtone on the mushrooming offers to get 'quick cash' by borrowing money from loan sharks. He made flyers in a style similar to those Jakartans see glued to electricity poles or trees.
'Want some cash? Me too.' 'Need cash? Contact: Your immediate family.' Both Mochamad Hasrul and Brian Suryajaya Gautama mock the avid money hunters among us who often target friends and family to buy their products. Hasrul addresses insurance agents and Brian the multi-level marketing concept.
Natasha Gabriella Tontey's take on money is sweeter compared to the others. She puts old-fashioned piggy banks most children had in the 1980s on display and provides games about money. Putri Ayu Lestari immersed herself in the life of a 3-in-1 traffic joki, commonly seen on Jakarta's roadsides, for a month. 'This 'illegal' work, which is considered by many as a lazy person's job interested me when I was coincidentally looking for a job. Who knows it might suit me well,' she wrote in the exhibition catalogue. The result is a video and an interactive game where visitors can dress up joki paper dolls.
Heaven and hell also come up in the young artists' study on money. Ika Vantiani from Jakarta interviewed owners of four shops in Chinatown's Petak Sembilan that sell jinzhi, or ghost money, in West Jakarta. She also talked to a customer who was about to burn the fake money in a temple in the area.
Ika, who used to use the name Peniti Pink as a fanzine writer and distributor a few years ago, decided to make her research on the concept of ghost money into a fanzine. She exhibits the zine along with piles of jinzhi in the gallery.
Burning jinzhi is a Chinese religious practice common in funerals to ensure the deceased has a good life in afterworld. Her exhibition aims to study how people make money from selling the fake money.
Art collective Cut and Rescue (Aditya Fachrizal Hafiz, Angga Cipta, Mario Julius, Rafsan Yuono and Syaiful Ardianto) take up the biggest space in the gallery with their variety of works: video, collage, found objects, old-fashioned religious comics, a banner and a dark box resembling a dukun (shaman) den imbued with mystical aromas coming from the flowers and herbs usually used for offerings. Cut and Rescue took one of the comics and twisted the stories and dialogue into contemporary settings. A usual title like Siksa Kubur (Torture from the Grave) was twisted into Siksa Anak Soleh (Torture of the Pious Boy), which tells the story of a philandering young man who pilfers money from the mosque's offertory box and is killed by a pious man under the orders of angry neighbors.
The small size of the gallery allows visitors to see the works in an easy flow that perhaps takes at most an hour to enjoy. And visitors do not have to worry about money; Pelicin is free of charge.
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