It goes without saying that our universally recognized concept of ‘time’ has more or less been upended these past couple of years. As the COVID-19 pandemic and its variants continue to permeate our daily lives, how do we navigate our memories from here on out?

Jakarta’s Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Nusantara (MACAN) aims to answer this question in their latest exhibition: "Present Continuous / Sekarang Seterusnya", launched on Jan. 15.

The exhibition itself as part of Museum MACAN’s "Present Continuous/Sekarang Seterusnya" project that was launched in September 2021 as a reaction to the COVID-19 pandemic. The aim was to generate a platform for artistic communities across Indonesia.

“[The exhibition is part of] a much bigger project: a platform where we will be able to collaborate with exhibition partners and curators across the country,” Museum MACAN’s director Aaron Seeto told The Jakarta Post.

“Normally, we would open an exhibition, and then we would have public programs that run alongside. With this project, we [were rethinking] how we generated the conversation and how we could make the conversations part of the project and not secondary to the exhibition,” Aaron added.

"Present Continuous/Sekarang Seterusnya" saw Museum MACAN collaborate with five contemporary art organizations across Indonesia: Biennale Jogja, Indeks, Jatiwangi art Factory, LOKA and Makassar Biennale. The exhibition is also supported by Australia’s Project Eleven, Julian and Cahaya Juwadi, Festivo and LG Electronics.

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