Moza Almatrooshi, The Alphabetics of the Baker, 2021 – Ongoing, Performance, bread. Courtesy Hunna Art Gallery
The environment is also a primary concern of the Indonesian artist, Maryanto, who is driven by his research into the country’s palm oil plantations in South Kalimantan and the industry’s conflict with indigenous tribes. Using traditional mediums such as painting, drawing and archival materials, he makes historical references to landscape painting as a colonial legacy of the Dutch East Indies. His work captures the current of capitalist extraction via monoculture as well as soon-forgotten motifs from local mythology.
