Srisasanti Gallery is pleased to present Pada Lingsa, a solo exhibition by Fandi Angga Saputra. Through a series of new paintings, Fandi meditates on the fragile continuity of cultural traditions in contemporary life.

The title of Fandi Angga Saputra's solo exhibition this time, Pada Lingsa, is borrowed from a punctuation mark in the Javanese script. It is a mark “equivalent to a comma (as in a pause).” In the Indonesian language, the word koma also carries a dual meaning: A pause in thought (comma) or a temporary suspension of consciousness (coma). Fandi responds to a quiet but persistent phenomenon marked by a growing disconnection from culturally rooted ways of life. Cultural fl uency is often uneven; some possess deep knowledge, others only fragments. A diffuse process of forgetting is underway, quietly eroding our responsibility to remember.

Born in Lampung to a Javanese family, Fandi’s practice is deeply informed by Kejawen—a philosophy of harmony, balance, and acceptance. His works refl ect an inheritance shaped by migration and displacement, where tradition is carried not in soil, but in gestures, stories, and beliefs. Here in the exhibition, Fandi’s works do not attempt to present culture and tradition as something whole or complete. They suggest that they are already slipping from our view, as forgetting begins quietly. What he paints contains meaning and reference towards a specifi c culture, but he is not painting the rituals themselves. These forms draw from Javanese tradition and communal values, evoking rituals of offering, sharing, and the principle of gotong-royong (mutual cooperation).

At a time when modern life accelerates and rituals fade, Pada Lingsa calls for a pause: to look again, to listen, and to gather what risks being forgotten.