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Bandung Photography Triennale 2022 highlights the future of the Earth
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To enshrine the dead: A visitor observes Poland-based artist Anna Kedziora's work, which features herbariums enshrining dead plants that are used as indicators of a particular river's condition in Poland. (JP/Anindito Ariwandono) (JP/Anindito Ariwandono)
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em>An impending sense of doom – the first Bandung Photography Triennale opens strong with a bleak dialectic about the future.
On Sept. 8, Bandung Photography Triennale 2022, under its big theme Future is Now: Skepticism, New Reality and Infinities, kicked off its series of exhibitions and satellite programs held in various venues across the city, involving 34 artists from across the globe – including Indonesia, Chile, the United States, Poland and Taiwan, among others.
Initiated by Bandung-based photography collective Komvni and curated by Asmudjo Jono Irianto and Henrycus Napitsunargo, the triennale, as noted in its curatorial notes, “seeks to involve artists to participate in responding to issues related to new realities, infinity and skepticism regarding the future of the earth’s ecosystem through the photography media''.
Its first exhibition, Dystopian Diffraction: Sign of Warning taking place at Selasar Sunaryo Art Space’s Bale Tonggoh, offers an unsettling dialogue on the future – or the absence of it – signified by the heart-wrenching state of the present.
Beyond literal representation
“The problem is that photography is a very popular medium, or can be said as the most popular visual medium,” Henrycus, one of the curators of Bandung Photography Triennale 2022, told The Jakarta Post at Selasar Sunaryo Art Space on Sept. 8.
