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Citra Sasmita

Into Eternal Land

— ,The Curve
Citra Sasmita in The Curve

Jo Underhill

The Indonesian artist transformed The Curve in her first solo UK exhibition. Via painting, installation, embroidery and scent, visitors took could explore ancestral memory, ritual and migration. 

Sasmita’s practice often engages with the Indonesian Kamasan painting technique. Dating from the fifteenth century, and traditionally practiced exclusively by men, Kamasan was used to narrate Hindu epics. Reclaiming this masculine practice, Sasmita is interested in dismantling misconceptions of Balinese culture and confronting its violent colonial past. Challenging gender hierarchies and reinventing mythologies, her protagonists are powerful women who populate a post-patriarchal world. 

Citra Sasmita is a self-taught artist; she studied literature and physics, then worked as a short story illustrator for the Bali Post before she began developing her expanded artistic practice.

Tagged with: Art & design The Curve

This exhibition was made possible thanks to Lead Support from the Bagri Foundation, additional support from the MENAEA Collection, Kuala Lumpur, the Henry Moore Foundation, and Natasha Sidharta, as well as a residency in partnership with Delfina Foundation.

Content notes

Please be advised that the exhibition includes illustrated depictions of nudity, as well as artworks containing animal skin.

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