FX Harsono Indonesia, b. 1949
Floating Between Threats, 2008, 2008
Acrylic on Canvas
500 x 180 cm, 2 Panels
This painting is part of the Point of Pain series that I created around 2008. Point of Pain series tells how Chinese people in Indonesia are discriminated against. Needles is...
This painting is part of the Point of Pain series that I created around 2008. Point of
Pain series tells how Chinese people in Indonesia are discriminated against.
Needles is a metaphor of threat that inflicts pain on people who are discriminated
against, whereas butterflies are a metaphor of living things that create beauty, just
as humans who create beautiful life and culture. However, butterflies and humans
are vulnerable to systems created by oppressive and discriminative powers.
Pain series tells how Chinese people in Indonesia are discriminated against.
Needles is a metaphor of threat that inflicts pain on people who are discriminated
against, whereas butterflies are a metaphor of living things that create beauty, just
as humans who create beautiful life and culture. However, butterflies and humans
are vulnerable to systems created by oppressive and discriminative powers.
