Trio Muharam

  • Artist Biographies

    Trio Muharam (born in Bandung, 1990) completed his fine arts studies at Bandung Institute of Indonesian Arts and Culture in 2015. He did join several fine arts communities in Bandung, Solo and Jakarta and actively worked as an artist, a writer and a art curator. As an artist, he has a tendency to use various mediums, especially in the process of exploring materials and found objects which makes his works seem experimental. Combined with everyday perspective, this exploration encourages Muharram to discover details that people often ignore. Muharram was inspired a lot by conceptual, kinetic and new media works which were then developed into instruments in his artistic practice.

    Muharam's work has been displayed in the In-Between exhibition, Cakravala (2021), BIJABA #1, Biennale Jawa Barat (2019), and in his solo exhibition entitled Acceptance and Realism, Bandung (2019). Meanwhile, several exhibitions he has curated include Anwar Cumin's solo exhibition, Boleh Di Grebek, Yogyakarta (2019), a group exhibition, Bongkar Gudang, Bandung (2018), and Shofa's solo exhibition, Bunga & Matahari, Solo (2017).

  • Concept of Artwork

    Borrowing some fictional images that seem to be a part of scenes from Noir films, I want to offer a "series" of "ordinary" daily events regarding the life of an engineered character in each image. As with every life story of a historical figure, in the future the story will be glorified and often become a commodity, as if past events must be celebrated from the perspective of the future. Commodification, industrialization and a series of capital operations are then reflected in the forms of objects that we often encounter in everyday life. Shopping receipts, cash registers, multi-inch screens, numbers and other transaction patterns are a part of us today. By duplicating the pattern of a series of processes, this work tries to reflect it by involving the interaction between the art object and the appreciator.

    The use of graphic techniques is an effort to offer a duplication process. Positive-negative images are an initial awareness practice in understanding the creation process, such as in the linocut process, negative images are the initial process before printing. However, in this work, the positive image that is usually produced after the printing process is deliberately displayed in a mirror reflection that can be seen dimly by peering and guessing, just like what we do when we try to 'predict' the future.