FX Harsono Indonesia, b. 1949
                                Berlindung, 2006
                            
                                    Acrylic on canvas
150 x 150 cm
                                    
                                This work is from FX Harsono  "Point of Pain" series. That series talk about how pain a person as a minority feels  if he suffers  discrimination. This is one of his earlier works that uses the banana leaf as a shield to protect him from the discrimination.  In later works FX  uses needle as a metaphor that needle pierce the body. Even though the needle cannot kill but it is painful, just as humans if they get discrimination. Whereas butterflies are a metaphor of minority who are vulnerable to discrimination and violence by the majority who have power.
                        
                    
                                                    This work is from FX Harsono  "Point of Pain" series. That series talk about how pain a person as a minority feels  if he suffers  discrimination. This is one of his earlier works that uses the banana leaf as a shield to protect him from the discrimination.  In later works FX  uses needle as a metaphor that needle pierce the body. Even though the needle cannot kill but it is painful, just as humans if they get discrimination. Whereas butterflies are a metaphor of minority who are vulnerable to discrimination and violence by the majority who have power.
                    
                    
                