SANDANG SANDING AGRARIA: ISA Art & Design x WTC x Sekar Kawung
Current exhibition
Overview
Sekar Kawung is a social enterprise dedicated to reviving Nusantara’s textile traditions. It is a system of knowledge shaped by ecology, farming cycles, and collective labor. In Tuban, weaving and batik are inseparable from agricultural philosophy, marking identity, ritual, and solidarity while embodying balance between humans and nature.
Believing that textile culture is a form of agroecology, which sustains harmony between people and nature while opening pathways for regenerative economies, Sekar Kawung draws on long-term research and archives, including Rens Heringa’s notes on Tuban’s farming and textile practices, to revive these traditions through contemporary works. Through exhibitions on Tenun Gedog and Batik Tuban, it invites reflection on clothing as a holistic value system. In Tuban, weaving always precedes batik-making.This is a metaphor for interlacing past virtues with the present and future, reminding us that clothing can guide us toward more grounded, sustainable, and resilient ways of living.
Believing that textile culture is a form of agroecology, which sustains harmony between people and nature while opening pathways for regenerative economies, Sekar Kawung draws on long-term research and archives, including Rens Heringa’s notes on Tuban’s farming and textile practices, to revive these traditions through contemporary works. Through exhibitions on Tenun Gedog and Batik Tuban, it invites reflection on clothing as a holistic value system. In Tuban, weaving always precedes batik-making.This is a metaphor for interlacing past virtues with the present and future, reminding us that clothing can guide us toward more grounded, sustainable, and resilient ways of living.
