Art Jakarta 2025 | Untranslatable Cartographies: at JIEXPO

Untranslatable Cartographies brings together works by A. Sebastianus, Aiman, Arahmaiani, Ari Bayuaji, Ardi Gunawan, Dabi Arnasa, Dewi Fortuna Maharani, Ida Lawrence, Ines Katamso, Jumaadi, Luh’De Gita, Marisa R Ng, Melissa Tan, Sillyndris, Sinta Tantra, Tara Kasenda, Taufiq HT, Yuki Nakayama, Yosefa Aulia, and Zikry Rediansyah.

The exhibition explores memory as a shifting landscape. Through painting, sculpture, installation, and mixed media, it traces how images, gestures, and materials migrate across time and place, carrying cultural histories and personal narratives. Rather than presenting a single route, Untranslatable Cartographies unfolds as a constellation of voices, where each artwork functions like a coordinate or legend—mapping recurrence, displacement, and the traces of what resists containment. Invoking Aby Warburg’s Mnemosyne Atlas, the exhibition reflects on memory as a living, unfolding terrain. Entering this space is to move through fragments of remembrance made tangible through art—an atlas in motion, always incomplete.