Meta Enjelita

Meta Enjelita's sculpture/soft construction work focuses entirely on fabric, both in terms of materiality and reflection. The materiality of the fabric brings this series of works closer to the reality of nature. Nature appears through the stages of natural fabric dyeing (eco dyeing), both through experimentation with the iron rust oxidation process (rust dyeing) and the use of soil colors (soil dyeing). This organic fabric dyeing gives birth to various motifs, abstractions and manifestations of tactile objects that invite our sense of feeling to approach, touch and hold. Meta's reflection reaches a realization of the inevitability of organic properties, fluctuations or inconstancy that always occur along with growth and decay in the natural process itself.

Inner Monologue describes Meta's position as a left-handed woman, doing activities with her left hand. In our daily lives, the left hand often receives a negative stigma compared to the right, which is deemed more positively. Through this series of works, Meta attempts to evoke images or material, emotional, even sensual dimensions of social structures that cause discomfort to a left-handed person like herself. Meta's artistic development can be mapped through the process of her own emotional journey with cloth, needles and threads. The elements of earth and iron that blend visually on the surface of her work coexist, creating a perception of a shared living space for existing differences.
Meta Enjelita was born in Pontianak, West Kalimantan in 1994. She graduated from the Textile Craft Department, Faculty of Fine Arts, Indonesia Institute of the Arts (ISI), Yogyakarta, 2018. She works in textiles, batik, and fashion.