Solo Exhibition I_S_L_A_N_D_S, Peninsula Shopping Centre, Singapore
I_S_LA_N_D_S is pleased to present Boedi Widjaja's Imaginary homeland: kang ouw(–) ."
A transliteration from Chinese 江湖 into Bahasa Indonesia, kang ouw refers to a realm where swordsmen in wuxia stories roam and fight, in the name of honour. It is a territory that is marked not with geographical lines but in the minds of its actors; a psychological, action-packed space.
The Imaginary homeland series stemmed from the artist's experience as a child migrant living out his homeland's history through mass media images and the imaginary. Wuxia is a film genre that the artist grew up with in the early 1980s. *kang ouw (–)* features drawings of wuxia scenographies and characters, and abstracted reproductions of the drawings using photocopiers and scanners.
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