Yoshi Fajar Kresno Murti

Yoshi Fajar presents the upper section from the mosque ‘Adz-Dzakirin’ that is currently under renovation in Clumprit Hamlet, Samigaluh, in the Menoreh hills where he lives. All the village’s residents contributed to the renovation of the deteriorating mosque: labor, thoughts, materials, and even money. Amalan (a form of goodness, deed or practice) takes the form of embodied practice, not of concepts, ideas or motive.

The work of Yoshi Fajar and the village residents criticises the word amalan. The residents of Clumprit village are situated in the outskirts of the country, and their bodies do not recognise amalan as a motif. The body of a villager is the amalan itself. Each physical movement of the residents' bodies is a deed: from working on the land, social relations, movements / community service, religious rituals, cultural practices, and so on. Yoshi's ugahari (humble, avoiding excess) architectural practice is socio-environmental, relational, resource-based and process-oriented. Using anarchy as a perspective, this practice intends to take over the authority of space production and return to the living.

On the other hand, the mosque – alongside the apparatus of the state – is one of the sites that voices deeds as morality. Deeds from inside the mosque is formed of amalan as motif-idea-concepts that take on a profane character. In what way does the body of daily practice by the village residents continually meet with amalan that is profane? One can be traced from the process of making the canopy, which is technically made by the village artisans and the entire community as seen in this exhibition room. The materialization of the negotiation between the resident’s deeds and the sound of the mosque is brought into the exhibition space to be met by visitors. This work intends to disrupt the idea of amalan among visitors who come from the upper-most social classes.
Yoshi Fajar Kresno Murti is an architect, archivist, library keeper, activist, and gardener who lives in Clumprit Hamlet, Menoreh, Kulonprogo. His multidisciplinary commitments are based on involvement in village-hamlet-tradition-environmental activities as spatial, social, cultural and economic entities.