Tracing Shadow is a solo exhibition by Indonesian artist Budi Agung Kuswara, opening on Saturday, 15 August 2026. This solo exhibition will showcase his early and recent works that demonstrate the evolving relationship between history, synthetic systems, and bodily interventions.
Drawing on over fifteen years of working with archives, cyanotype, and the materiality of light, Budi Agung Kuswara combines algorithmically generated images, solar indexical processes, and manual brushstrokes to explore the unstable relationship between trace, reconstruction, and perception. His works often depict descendants of unidentified Balinese individuals from the colonial period, generated based on photographs in university image archives, and envisions an alternative reality set against rich cyanotype blue. These descendants join the shared struggle and tension across Southeast Asia as we contend with a colonial past and a global present.
Described as “Solar Synthetic Reality”, this approach reveals reality as a layered synthesis whose apparent stability conceals underlying fractures and mediated structures. Reality is not fixed or pure but is continuously shaped through the interaction of history, technology, the body, language, and systems of knowledge and power.
Venue: Mizuma Gallery, 22 Lock Road #01-34 Gillman Barracks, Singapore 108939
Hours: 11am to 7pm on Tuesdays to Saturdays, and 11am to 6pm on Sundays
When: 15 Aug - 20 Sep 2026,
By: Mizuma Gallery
