Boedi Widjaja at his childhood home in Surakarta, Indonesia, 2012. Photo: Audrey Koh
Indonesia-born Singaporean artist Boedi Widjaja has designed an architectural and sound work—a room within a room—that links diverse conceptual references through his own lived experience of migration, culture and aesthetics. Widjaja’s reference points include the Chinese diaspora, his grandfather’s home in China, his own childhood home in Surakarta (Solo), the architecture of urban Singapore, a groundbreaking 1932 international architecture exhibition, the Black Forest hut in Germany where philosopher Martin Heidegger lived, and the ‘black box turned inside-out’ architecture of the LASALLE McNally campus itself.
The room takes the form of four dry walls that bisect the painted plasterboard walls and glass façade of the Earl Lu Gallery. Their orientation highlights three existing columns, creating a new reference point between them. A pigmented, custom-formulated concrete, salt and mica mix that will crack and change colour over time has been applied to the interior of the walls.
Black—Hut is an Affiliate Project of Singapore Biennale 2016.
Venue: LASALLE College of the Arts, 1 McNally Street, Singapore 187940, Earl Lu Gallery
Opening Hours: 12:00pm – 7:00pm, Tuesday to Sunday (Closed on Monday and Public Holidays)
When: 28 Oct 2016 - 1 Feb 2017,
By: LASALLE College of the Arts
