In 2011 I attended a photography workshop initiated by a Berlin artist named Wolfgang Bellwinkel. This workshop was held at the Langgeng Art Foundation Yogyakarta, with the theme “Who am I”. Workshop participants were asked to respond to the theme with the medium of photography, which would later be presented and discussed together. I think this workshop invites us to question who we are again, and what kind of identity I have. At that time I was very interested in the Staged Photography method, and without thinking twice I chose that method to tell my story. I then told the story of being a child, with parents who lived alone in their hometown. Like parents in general, children grow up and have their own lives, the house is quiet again with only the two of them left. As an artist I have involved my parents several times in creating works, my father who helped me take pictures when I was a model, my mother who was happy to be photographed according to direction. I think this is a fun and personal collaboration. Moving on to another image, I try to present where I live, with friends who live in a rented house together. Friends who often help when we live hard in a place of exile. At that time I also started to join the MES 56 art community, I then immortalized it by making a portrait of myself and my friends in the gallery space, by presenting the Mattress as a shared place above the head. Then in the end I immortalized the diversity of artistic life in Yogyakarta, one of which is the issue of belief. I am Christian, and have a friend who works with the symbol of the antichrist. I then immortalized the photo with my friend at his place of work.
Series of Photograph, 2012
