Art exhibition encourages visitors to reclaim history, call it their own
After a two-year hiatus, the National Gallery is holding an art exhibition titled "Para Sekutu yang Tidak Bisa Berkata Tidak" (The Acquiescent Allies), held by Goethe-Institute in collaboration with art institutions in Thailand, Singapore and Germany.
The nature of artwork demands interpretation, yet it raises further doubts over whether art and contextualism go well together. If artwork is dismantled from the creator's intent upon its completion, will one be able to form a whole new narrative while looking at it and draw relevance to today's circumstances? "Para Sekutu yang Tidak Bisa Berkata Tidak" (The Acquiescent Allies), which runs from Jan. 28 to Feb. 27, tries to answer that question.
As part of a long-term curatorial dialogue project initiated by Goethe-Institut titled Collecting Entanglements and Embodied Histories, the exhibition presents distinct yet intertwining narratives with three other collaborators: MAIAAM Contemporary Art Museum in Chiang Mai, Singapore Art Museum and Hamburger Bahnhof (part of Nationalgalerie - Staatliche Museen Zu Berlin) in Germany.
