kohesi Initiatives is pleased to present Fever Dream, Timoteus Anggawan Kusno’s (b. 1989, Indonesia) first solo exhibition with the gallery. Having been exploring colonialism-related issues and speculative history for a decade, Kusno unfolds much wider discourses related to collective memory and power relation, particularly the ones referring to Indonesia during the New Order regime and after the regime falls, to discuss different variations of interpretations, from historical amnesia, nostalgia, and melancholia. Kusno’s works will occupy the entire gallery space, presenting new works with varying mediums, including painting, drawing, photograph, sketch, book, film, and installation.
Fever Dream is presented as a development of a film set—designed by imagining how one scene conjoins with the others, with a well-directed dramaturgy. The cinematographic-like approach suggests Kusno's working method, which largely involves gathering visual images from many different sources, mostly from historical references, and processing them with varied techniques, styles, and mediums.
The exhibition concludes with a video installation titled Fever Dream which also became the title of this exhibition. In this work, Kusno put the realities of the colonial era and the following periods in parallel with dreams and subconsciousness. A fever dream is a metaphor for entering a fatal subconsciousness, an alley connecting the real and imaginary worlds.
Artworks
Installation Views
Featured Artist
Timoteus Anggawan Kusno
