We are pleased to share Syagini Ratna Wulan's project for Asia Pacific Trienalle Kids at QAGOMA. APT10 Kids was opened in September 25, with Monad by Syagini Ratna Wulan as one of its featured projects. Along with Syagini Ratna Wulan, APT10 Kids features seven projects by artists from across the Asia Pacific region that celebrate inclusion and diversity, and the importance of collaboration and community.
In Monad, Syagini invites children to transform large-scale mandalas on the walls and floor by using colourful, magnetic blocks to create patterns. Syagini hopes her activity will be a calming and meditative experience.
Artist
Born 1979, Bandung, Indonesia
Lives and works in Bandung, Indonesia
Syagini Ratna Wulan a.k.a Cagi is an artist based in Bandung, Indonesia who received a Bachelor’s Degree in Fine Arts from the Faculty of Art and Design from the Bandung Institute of Technology (2001) and a Master’s Degree in Cultural Studies at Goldsmiths College, University of London (2005). She works with a non-linear visual approach throughout her career as an artist and moves around many different mediums and methodologies of presenting her ideas. More recently, she has been focusing on interplays of light, color, and perception.
Syagini has been involved in numerous exhibitions domestically and abroad, such as the recent Asia Pacific Triennale 10 (2021), QAGOMA, Brisbane, Australia both as part of the group exhibition and APT10 Kids at the Children's Art Centre; Felix Art Fair (2020) in Los Angeles, USA; Art Jakarta (2019) with ROH Projects, Jakarta, Indonesia; ARTJOG 10: Changing Perspective (2017) in Yogyakarta, Indonesia; Art Stage Singapore (2017), as well as recent solo exhibitions Susurrus (2019), Spectral Fiction (2016) at ROH Projects, at Jakarta and ahead-of-itself-already-being-in (2017) at FOST Gallery, Singapore. She has also presented a solo project titled BIBLIOTEA at the 2011 edition of ArtHK, Hong Kong. That same year, she was invited for a residency at Art Initiative Tokyo. Her works are held in public collections in Singapore Art Museum, Obayashi Private Museum, Japan, and Indonesian Exchange.
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Sara Weckerle, The Weekend Edition. 20 January 2022.
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Photography by QAGOMA
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