ShanghART Gallery 香格纳画廊
中文

Memory of Water
MELATI SURYODARMO 麦拉蒂·苏若道默
2022
single-channel video
29 minutes 45 seconds
Edition of 5 + 2AP
MS_8517

This film was made following the death of Suryodarmo’s father, Suprapto Suryodarmo (1945–2019). Wearing paper costumes, the artist and two performers carry out a series of rituals and gestures in search of the ‘soul’ of her father’s house. The dream-like sequence culminates with the artist rolling around in a field of grass and torn paper, as if in a trance.

Related Exhibitions:
Melati Suryodarmo: Passionate Pilgrim, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, U.K. 05.17, 2023 -09.03, 2023
I'm a Ghost in My Own House, Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht, Netherlands 06.12, 2022 -10.30, 2022