Yudi Noor (b.1971, Bandung, Indonesia) presents a series of works made of various materials and objects such as textiles, embroidery, photos, adhesive tape, paper and glass and such diverse sources, histories and origins as folk tradition and industrial production. The regular use of the ephemeral in his work mirrors the idea that the spiritual has no form-just a reflection. His compositions are produced through a spontaneous and semi-autonomous daily ritual and pose a direct response to the fragmentation of cultural, political and religious ideologies as a result of globalization and modernization. His stance towards actual themes and tendencies of contemporary society share a lot with revolutionary political, social and spiritual sentiments referring to or inspired by other states of consciousness in “psychedelic art”. At the moment the eye and the brain interact in the act of seeing, it is difficult to distinguish between seeing, thinking, feeling, and remembering. For Noor, the moment of that encounter (between the viewer and the artwork) is a moment of contemplation; of spiritual and meditative awareness. His work aims to create such a feeling and takes us to a mystic place between past and future, towards “movement” (departure and arrival), peace and “light”.
Posted on: Sat, 17 May 2014 15:22:22 +0000
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