TELL ME PLEASE
2013-2015
Ceramic on canvas, cotton thread
Interactive installation

This artwork is selected as a finalist for Gudang Garam Indonesia Art Award 2015
Showing at National Gallery of Indonesia
29 September 2015 to 01 October 2015


go to this link page for installation process
www.niagautama.com/artworks1.html​

 
The works became my contemplation about being a contemporary artist. What is it actually? Is it when everything goes? When concept is very important in contemporary artwork, but sometimes eliminate the craftsmanship or showing ‘found objects’, as long as the concept is (hopefully) sophisticated and displayed in an art space, then the object (can be) become ‘a contemporary artwork’. When craftsmanship and material knowledge become less important, then how about the process of creating the artwork or studio work? If this happen, everybody may admit themselves as contemporary artists. The question is...’Am I contemporary enough?’
 
Tell Me Please....inspired by Braille character. Each canvases sew with ceramic tiles that represent Braille letters. The decision to use Braille character is to sybbolize my question as ‘being contemporary. I still groping and blind for the contemporary context.
 
Interactive:
 
Visitors are requested to guess the sentences shown in the artwork. Each canvase is represent one Braille character, then the whole line represent a sentence.
Please use  the Braille code   as the key to read the sentences. 
 
Hints: some sentences are hidden in the artwork description.

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braille code