Friday & Saturday 12pm - 5pm
For his first exhibition with the gallery, Rizaldi will present a new iteration of Otonomi Feral—an ongoing research and installation project that includes an audio drama, a series of large format photographic works, and a video installation. The project follows a group of eco-terrorists who are setting up an amateur radio station deep within an Indonesian forest.
Part fiction, part reality, Otonomi Feral reflects on eco-terrorism in contemporary Indonesia. The exhibition explores themes of withdrawal, negation, anti-progress, and the role of technology in everyday life. It seeks to depict and dissect the aesthetics of refusal, while examining anti-technology ideologies as a form of catharsis in response to an increasingly accelerated future.
Riar Rizaldi works as an artist and filmmaker. He works predominantly with the medium of moving images and sound, both in the black-box of cinema settings as well spatial presentation as installation. His artistic practice focuses mostly on the relationship between science, technology, labour, and nature, worldviews, genre cinema, and the possibility of theoretical fiction.
His works have been shown at various international film festivals (including Berlinale, Locarno, IFFR, FID Marseille, Viennale, BFI London, Cinema du Reel, Vancouver, etc.) as well as MoMA New York (2024), Whitney Biennial (2024), Taipei Biennial (2023), Istanbul Biennial (2023), Venice Architecture Biennale (2021), Centre Pompidou Paris (2021), Biennale Jogja (2021), National Gallery of Indonesia (2019), and other venues and institutions. In addition, recent solo exhibitions and focus programs of his works had been held at Gasworks London (2024), Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) London (2024), Z33 Hasselt (2024), Centre de la photographie Genève (2023), and Batalha Centro de Cinema Porto (2023) amongst others.
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