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The Paper Menagerie: at Omah Budoyo Yogyakarta

Current exhibition
18 June - 16 August 2025
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The Paper Menagerie, at Omah Budoyo Yogyakarta

The Paper Menagerie Exhibition explores the paradoxical nature of paper—at once fragile and resilient, temporary yet archival. First shown in Jakarta and now brought to Yogyakarta, the exhibition features 19 artists, from emerging talents to established names, who expand the possibilities of paper as a medium. Their works transform paper through cutting, folding, layering, and sculpting, revealing its capacity to carry memory, resistance, and personal histories.

Rooted in ancient papermaking traditions, from Chinese origins to Southeast Asian materials like daluang and saa—paper has always held cultural and political weight. Beyond writing and documentation, it has served as a tool for storytelling and resistance, from Javanese manuscripts to protest posters.

 

Inspired by Ken Liu’s short story The Paper Menagerie, the exhibition reflects on identity, cultural memory, and loss. Liu’s tale of a mother breathing life into origami for her son—only for those symbols to be forgotten over time, echoes how paper preserves meaning yet can also be easily destroyed or erased.

 

In this spirit, The Paper Menagerie invites viewers to reconsider paper not just as a material, but as a vessel of emotion, memory, and transformation, an archive of what might otherwise vanish, waiting to be re-read and remembered.

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Works
  • Alexander Sebastianus, Sunyata #01, 2025
    Alexander Sebastianus, Sunyata #01, 2025
  • Alexander Sebastianus, Sunyata #02, 2025
    Alexander Sebastianus, Sunyata #02, 2025
  • Alexander Sebastianus, Purnatva #01, 2025
    Alexander Sebastianus, Purnatva #01, 2025
  • Alexander Sebastianus, Purnatva #02, 2025
    Alexander Sebastianus, Purnatva #02, 2025
  • Adi Sundoro, Persatuan Mental Tempe #1, 2022
    Adi Sundoro, Persatuan Mental Tempe #1, 2022
  • Adi Sundoro, Persatuan Mental Tempe #2, 2022
    Adi Sundoro, Persatuan Mental Tempe #2, 2022
  • Anang Saptoto, Ecological Faces Series: Coconut Seeds in Photogram, 2018
    Anang Saptoto, Ecological Faces Series: Coconut Seeds in Photogram, 2018
  • Anang Saptoto, Ecological Faces Series: Goat Manure in Cyanotype, 2023
    Anang Saptoto, Ecological Faces Series: Goat Manure in Cyanotype, 2023
  • Anang Saptoto, Ecological Faces Series: Grated Coconut in Lumen Print, 2018
    Anang Saptoto, Ecological Faces Series: Grated Coconut in Lumen Print, 2018
  • Anang Saptoto, Ecological Faces Series: Soybean Seeds in Photogram, 2018
    Anang Saptoto, Ecological Faces Series: Soybean Seeds in Photogram, 2018
  • Ashley Tay, Coma, 2023
    Ashley Tay, Coma, 2023
  • Ashley Tay, Galore, 2023
    Ashley Tay, Galore, 2023
  • Ashley Tay, Unearth, 2023
    Ashley Tay, Unearth, 2023
  • David Bakti, Puisi Amplas No. 02, 2024
    David Bakti, Puisi Amplas No. 02, 2024
  • David Bakti, Puisi Amplas No. 03, 2025
    David Bakti, Puisi Amplas No. 03, 2025
  • Egga Jaya Prasetya, Tanggah:stepped dome, 2025
    Egga Jaya Prasetya, Tanggah:stepped dome, 2025
  • Ella Wijt, The Wives of the Nightfall, 2025
    Ella Wijt, The Wives of the Nightfall, 2025
  • Ella Wijt, Portal, 2025
    Ella Wijt, Portal, 2025
  • Ella Wijt, Spring Rising, 2025
    Ella Wijt, Spring Rising, 2025
  • Keenan Tham, Rat Race 2, 2023
    Keenan Tham, Rat Race 2, 2023
  • Keenan Tham, Rat Race 3, 2023
    Keenan Tham, Rat Race 3, 2023
  • Keenan Tham, Rat Race 4, 2023
    Keenan Tham, Rat Race 4, 2023
  • Keenan Tham, Rat Race 8, 2023
    Keenan Tham, Rat Race 8, 2023
  • Keenan Tham, Rat Race 9, 2023
    Keenan Tham, Rat Race 9, 2023
  • Widi Pangestu Soegiono, Contour, 2025
    Widi Pangestu Soegiono, Contour, 2025
  • Widi Pangestu Soegiono, Raintree, 2025
    Widi Pangestu Soegiono, Raintree, 2025
  • Yosefa Aulia, Cork , 2024
    Yosefa Aulia, Cork , 2024
  • Ruth Marbun, 1/Bersuar, 2025
    Ruth Marbun, 1/Bersuar, 2025
  • Ruth Marbun, 3/Bersuaka, 2025
    Ruth Marbun, 3/Bersuaka, 2025
  • Jumaadi, Kepala Boneka 02, 2025
    Jumaadi, Kepala Boneka 02, 2025
  • Jumaadi, Kepala Boneka 03, 2025
    Jumaadi, Kepala Boneka 03, 2025
  • Jumaadi, Kepala Boneka 01, 2025
    Jumaadi, Kepala Boneka 01, 2025
  • Mujahidin Nurrahman, Where does all this beauty come from #2, 2025
    Mujahidin Nurrahman, Where does all this beauty come from #2, 2025
  • Mujahidin Nurrahman, Where does all this beauty come from #3, 2025
    Mujahidin Nurrahman, Where does all this beauty come from #3, 2025
  • SIllyndris, The Inland Catch 1, 2025
    SIllyndris, The Inland Catch 1, 2025
  • SIllyndris, The Inland Catch 2, 2025
    SIllyndris, The Inland Catch 2, 2025
  • SIllyndris, The Inland Catch 3, 2025
    SIllyndris, The Inland Catch 3, 2025
  • SIllyndris, The Inland Catch 4, 2025
    SIllyndris, The Inland Catch 4, 2025
  • SIllyndris, The Inland Catch 5, 2025
    SIllyndris, The Inland Catch 5, 2025
  • Widi Pangestu, Fractal Disposition, 2025
    Widi Pangestu, Fractal Disposition, 2025
  • Dara Lo, Unbound II, 2025
    Dara Lo, Unbound II, 2025
  • Dara Lo, Unbound I, 2025
    Dara Lo, Unbound I, 2025
  • Ng Jia Xi, More Than Just Wind #1, 2025
    Ng Jia Xi, More Than Just Wind #1, 2025
  • Ng Jia Xi, More Than Just Wind #2, 2025
    Ng Jia Xi, More Than Just Wind #2, 2025
  • Ng Jia Xi, More Than Just Wind #3, 2025
    Ng Jia Xi, More Than Just Wind #3, 2025
  • HUUH Collective, Unpacking The Home, 2024
    HUUH Collective, Unpacking The Home, 2024
  • Rui Kai Ho, Round Beaver, 2025
    Rui Kai Ho, Round Beaver, 2025
  • Rui Kai Ho, 乖 (Good Bois), 2025
    Rui Kai Ho, 乖 (Good Bois), 2025
  • Rui Kai Ho, Round Manatee & Dugong, 2025
    Rui Kai Ho, Round Manatee & Dugong, 2025
  • Yunita Rebekah, Pink, 2025
    Yunita Rebekah, Pink, 2025
  • Yunita Rebekah, Ruang Angkasa, 2025
    Yunita Rebekah, Ruang Angkasa, 2025
  • Yunita Rebekah, Tanaman Liar Parkiran, 2025
    Yunita Rebekah, Tanaman Liar Parkiran, 2025
News
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