AORA is a virtual gallery, members platform and shop founded in June 2020 by curator Jenn Ellis and architect Benni Allan that instills a sense of calm, wellbeing, and discovery through the curated meeting of architecture, art, and music.
At the heart of AORA is a series of three individual rooms with rotating three-month exhibitions. AORA:III, the third exhibition in the space, explores bodies. Expansive rather than literal, it reflects on not only our physical properties but also the spaces we inhabit and our individual psychologies.
ROH Projects participates in the group exhibition with three new works by Faisal Habibi.
The three of This Thing by Faisal Habibi embody elements of sculpture, painting, and art "object". Appended to question the essence, function, and perception of objects, the assemblages reflect the artist's deep interest in surveying the relationship between humans and materiality. At the core of Habibi's practice is structural configuration, which conceptualises his contemplation of objects that occupy our daily lives. Visually, the artist establishes a distinctively consistent theme in his works; compact and multidimensional compositions with gleaming surfaces tangibly weave in and out of the spaces that they occupy.
Artist
Born 1984, Jakarta, Indonesia
Lives and works in Bandung, Indonesia
Since the start of his career, Faisal Habibi has been concerned with material culture; to interrogate its culture by playfully yet critically positing and creating alterations of familiar everyday objects, thus enticing the viewers to reignite conversation with the objects.
Habibi received his Bachelor’s Degree from Bandung Institute of Technology in 2008 with concentration in sculpture. He has exhibited his works in Bandung, Jakarta, Yogyakarta and also abroad in Singapore, Berlin, Germany and Australia. Habibi's first solo exhibition, This is not an apple… was held at ROH Projects in 2015. His most recent solo exhibitions include Stretch & Fold at Jarmuschek+Partner gallery, Berlin, Germany (2021), fillet at Sullivan+Strumpf, Singapore (2018) and nonsuch at Art Basel Hong Kong with ROH, Hong Kong (2018). His works have also been included in major group exhibitions, with the recent ones being at Art Cologne with Jarmuschek+Partner gallery (2022), Identität Nicht Nachgewiesen (Identity Not Proven) at Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn, Germany (2022); Contemporary Worlds: Indonesia at National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia (2019); as well as group shows both online and offline, including Art Jakarta with ROH, Jakarta, Indonesia (2022); Art Basel Hong Kong OVR with ROH (2021); AORA:III (2021); Art Basel Online Viewing Room with ROH (2020); Papers: Position at Brandshof Hamburg, Berlin, Germany (2021); Art Jakarta with ROH Projects, Jakarta, Indonesia (2019); ARTJOG 10: Changing Perspective at Jogja National Museum, Yogyakarta, Indonesia and Biennale Jogja XIV Equator #4 in Yogyakarta, Indonesia (2017). Faisal’s works have been featured in many art awards, including Kompetisi Karya Trimatra Salihara (first prize winner), Indonesia Art Award (juror’s choice), and Bandung Contemporary Art Awards (special mention). He was awarded a three-month residency program at the Zentrum für Kunst und Urbanistic (ZKU – Center for Art and Urbanism) in Berlin. Faisal's work is a part of the Contemporary Art Collection of the Federal Republic of Germany.
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