"- Widi Pangestu, whose exploration of paper highlights the paradox of industrial society against organic materiality. Pangestu’s process reveals how the act of making can also be an act of unmaking, where dissolution is not erasure but transformation into another state of being.
- In Common Roots (2023), Pangestu records these entanglements by turning to bamboo and other plant fibers as cultural signifiers.
- Axis/Disaxis (2023) departs from the formal constraints of paper to consider how plant-based materials structure relations between time, nature, and human intervention.
- In both series, bamboo becomes a figure through which the past and future are folded together. It is a material that carries within it the sedimented histories of traditional fiber work alongside its potential for sustainable futures. "