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JA Pramuhendra revisits his Catholic upbringing in solo exhibition
For his second solo exhibition, artist J. Ariadhitya Pramuhendra – better known as JA Pramuhendra – sketched and sculpted holy figures based on his recollections of childhood memories.
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Guiding light: Artist JA Pramuhendra explores his installation “Let There be Light, Angels", featured in his solo exhibition “The Monster Chapter II: Momentum” at the National Gallery in Jakarta. (the National Gallery/Indra Wijaya)
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or his second solo exhibition, artist J. Ariadhitya Pramuhendra – better known as JA Pramuhendra – sketched and sculpted holy figures based on his recollections of childhood memories.
The air is cold and the flames of candles flicker slightly in the breeze. In the distance stand hooded figures at the edge of the room, with their gazes palpable at times. As the light illuminates paintings on the walls, visitors sit in the pews, pondering.
The place is not a medieval monastery, but rather a section of JA Pramuhendra’s solo exhibition at the National Gallery of Indonesia.
Held from March 23 to April 7, The Monster Chapter II: Momentum is part two of Pramuhendra’s The Monster exhibition trilogy. The first chapter, Memory, took place at CAN’S Gallery in Tanah Abang, Jakarta, last year.
“The monsters here are memories, meanings, the past and questions I have had throughout my life,” Pramuhendra said. “Those things kept me alive to this day.”
It is his Catholic upbringing that Pramuhendra revisited in Momentum, particularly his memories of seeing his father, a physics teacher, drawing holy figures as a hobby.
Many of the featured works of art have a distinctly Catholic overtone to them, evoking images of the Renaissance and Enlightenment periods and even resembling the paintings one would see in a place of worship.
