Image credit: Zico Albaiquni's artwork unfolded to view, photographed during a recent visit to Suzanne Archer’s studio. Image courtesy of the artist.
Zico Albaiquni's latest works explore how memory is carried through bodies, gestures and communal practices, and how land, water and people are continuously shaping each other.
Albaiquni approaches painting as a layered, relational act rather than as the creation of a finished image. His work is grounded in the Indonesian concept of ‘lukis’ – a method of making that is intertwined with ritual, labour, spirituality and everyday life. He works with existing images that hold personal, cultural and colonial histories, overlaying and obscuring these images to allow contradictions to remain visible.
These new works have been shaped by Albaiquni’s journeys between his current home of Melbourne, his family home in Bandung and Ciamis, Indonesia, as well as through creative residencies at Campbelltown Arts Centre, where he is developing work for an upcoming exhibition.
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