Geometria Horizontis, an solo exhibition by Sumastania Widyandani | 3 August – 1 September 2024 | Galeri Ruang Dini ▪ Jl. Anggrek No. 46, Bandung



Rangga Purbaya

Rangga Purbaya is a visual artist interested incollective memory, narrative, archive, and historyof the 1965 genocide in Indonesia. He adoptedan investigative method of excavating personalhistories, re-mapping memories, and identity inhis artistic approach to reconnect the distancescaused by the tragedy. His work integrates differentmediums, such as photography, text, mix-media,video installation, and performance.

His solo exhibitions include “Stories Left Untold” atthe Fête de l’Humanité, Paris, France (2016), and“Letter To The Lost One” at MES 56, Yogyakarta(2017). In the past five years, he did a residencyat ACC, Gwangju, South Korea (2018) andnumerous exhibition at Jimei X Arles InternationalPhoto Festival, China (2017), Song Eun Art Space,Seoul (2017), ACC, Gwangju, South Korea (2018& 2019), Organhaus, Chongqing, China (2018),Medo Art & Mondial Research EU, Vienna, Austria(2018), BARRAK Gallery, Okinawa, Japan (2019),Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto, Japan(2021), and Iwaya Community Art Biennial, Lagos,Nigeria (2021) among others.

He graduated from the Photography Department, Indonesian Institute of the Arts. In 2002, he co-founded Ruang MES 56, and in 2015 became a member of 1965 Setiap Hari – a transnationalresearch and relay collective working with socialmedia in Indonesia.

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