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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. </p><p><br></p>" />
Noah Davis</a> as one of the most original and uncanny painters emerging in recent years.</p><p>Primarily based in Los Angeles, Noah Davis created a body of figurative paintings that explores a range of Black life.</p><p>Motivated by the desire to ‘represent the people around me’, Davis painted figures diving into pools, sleeping, dancing, and looking at art in scenes that can be both realistic and dreamlike, joyful and melancholic. Davis drew from anonymous photography, personal archives, film, art history and his imagination to create a ravishing body of work. Often enigmatic, his paintings reveal a deep feeling for humanity and the emotional textures of the everyday.</p><p><br></p>" />
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February 23, 2025
Indonesian artist Citra Sasmita transforms The Curve for her first solo exhibition in the UK: a new commission titled Into Eternal Land.
February 21, 2025
The Indonesian artist’s Barbican project plunges visitors into a mesmerising Dante-esque world of flames, blood, snakes and dismembered bodies
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