Ida Lawrence Indonesian/Australian, b. 1989
Dimas_s Wifi Tower, 2018
Acrylic on Canvas
152 x 183 cm
Ida Lawrence, Dimas_s Wifi Tower, 2018
IDR 58,000,000.00
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Dimas Wifi Tower is a painting that was inspired by Ida’s relative back in her Javan village. The Wifi Tower painted as a central subject depicting the arrival of internet in an area deprived of outside information and rapid development. She painted it using vernacular visual language such as tikar and weaving pattern as well as banana tree, and incorporating narration and stories that was the inspiration of the painting.
Ida Lawrence is young Australian artist of Indonesian heritage. This series of a village and her surrounds is a reflection of the stories her father told her as a child and her conversations with FX Harsono and others in the community when she was visiting Indonesia. She looks at the stories told and how it reflects in her identity in dual-cultural upbringing and how to reconcile it with her contemporary life in Australia.
