Veteran Indonesia artist F.X. Harsono’s ‘Memorandum Of Inhumane Act No.3’ is part of his ongoing efforts to document the significant events, people, and circumstances surrounding massacres of Indonesian Chinese across villages and towns in Java from 1947 to 1949.
ART as a conversation piece need not be limited. It’s really a matter of how far an artist wants to take a particular subject matter, especially something challenging like part of a nation’s troubled past, and whether the viewer is willing to engage with such issues.
In the second edition of KL-based gallery A+ Works of Art’s Kadang Kadang Dekat Dekat Akan Datang series, Malaysian artist Chong Kim Chiew and Indonesian veteran F.X. Harsono are using their works to create a dialogue about their respective nations' histories.
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