We are pleased to share that ROH Projects will be participating for the first time in LISTE, an art fair based in Basel with a presentation of new works by Aditya Novali (b. 1978, Solo, Indonesia). In ME:DI:UM, Novali contemplates upon the complicated history of 19th-century Mooi Indie landscape paintings — the roots of a very particular modernity — and the ways in which the Indonesian archipelago has been romanticized and distorted through a western gaze as a repercussion of Dutch colonization. Novali proposes a nuanced, complex way of conversation regarding identity, nationality, collective memory, and the binding threads between belonging and communicating the realities of life beyond the idyllic greens of mountains and fields.
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