Alexander Sebastianus Hartanto (ID)

Ritualization of Forms (2024)

Hand Batik on Archival Photograph;
Cotton Tjanting (Batik Pen), Malam (Beeswax and Resin)
150 x 120 x 100 cm
Janez Puhar gallery - Škrlovec tower, Kranj
Sacred ritual of remembering origins

Alexander Sebastianus Hartanto  is an artist and ethnographer from Indonesia who recontextualizes and resacralizes Javanese craft through contemporary art. He unveils the ritualization of the batik process as his sacred act of memorializing froms—creating a practice to remember one of their origin/memory/a sense of time and space.

photo: Maša Pirc